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Nothing sells better than fear: More mass shootings leads to boost in gun sales
nydailynews.com ^ | march 2, 2016 | john rosenthal

Posted on 03/03/2016 5:08:55 AM PST by lowbridge

It's a page from the playbook of the NRA and the unregulated gun industry. The more mass shootings occur — especially high-profile massacres — the more people buy guns.

Until President Obama’s executive orders in January, gun dealers in 33 states and at thousands of gun shows have been allowed to sell guns to anyone without a background check. It’s no wonder there’s a gun violence epidemic in America.

We’ve finally reached a critical mass of gun violence such that almost every day there’s another mass shooting.

In 2015, there were 330 mass shootings of four or more people, and to date in 2016, there have been almost as many mass shootings as days of the year.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; secondamendment
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1 posted on 03/03/2016 5:08:56 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

The Daily News staffers are cowards who don’t allow comments, so I don’t waste my time on them.

When the Daily Beast took away comments, that was the last day I went to their website.

Any on-line “news outlet” that does not have a comments section is admitting they can’t argue their points, and they are just a one-way propaganda outlet. I won’t give them a click.


2 posted on 03/03/2016 5:13:08 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Actually gun violence is down statistically so lets not let facts inform us.


3 posted on 03/03/2016 5:15:04 AM PST by refermech
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To: Travis McGee

Well, at least they didn’t accuse the NRA of instigating mass shootings, surprisingly....


4 posted on 03/03/2016 5:15:18 AM PST by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: lowbridge

“It’s a page from the playbook of the NRA and the unregulated gun industry.”

When your lead sentence is a blatant lie, I have a hard time even finishing your tale of woe.


5 posted on 03/03/2016 5:15:23 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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To: Tupelo
“It’s a page from the playbook of the NRA and the unregulated gun industry.”

"Unregulated" gun industry? LOL

6 posted on 03/03/2016 5:18:08 AM PST by The Toad
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To: lowbridge

Obama talking about gun control sell more guns AND ammo than anything. Curious if since gun sales are up, if theft from private residences is also up.


7 posted on 03/03/2016 5:18:19 AM PST by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: lowbridge

Is the NRA forcing anyone to buy guns? No the People feel a need to Protect themselves because Police can not be everywhere and all the time.
Only a fool would let themselves be unarmed in today’s America when any MS-13 and or Terrorist can just walk across our Borders and ICE is threatened by a President to not apprehend them.
Is it any wonder TRUMP?!?! Hell NO!!!


8 posted on 03/03/2016 5:19:10 AM PST by Harpotoo
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To: lowbridge

daily news ........Bird cage bottom material.


9 posted on 03/03/2016 5:19:28 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: lowbridge

“Until President Obama’s executive orders in January, gun dealers in 33 states and at thousands of gun shows have been allowed to sell guns to anyone without a background check.”

And how many mass shootings resulted from guns being sold at gun shows being allowed to sell guns to anyone without a background check? I bet not ‘cause the media would be all over that 24/7. So that EO has done exactly nothing but restrict gun ownership......and that was the intent all along by the way...........on the other hand, fast and furious however.....


10 posted on 03/03/2016 5:19:29 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: refermech

When stuff like that is posted in a cowardly libtard “no comments allowed” online “news outlet,” it’s just click bait, and I won’t play.


11 posted on 03/03/2016 5:22:56 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: lowbridge

What accounts for the rash of suicides in America?


12 posted on 03/03/2016 5:23:37 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: lowbridge
Nothing sells better than fear

Hmmm. I usually buy mine in anger.

13 posted on 03/03/2016 5:25:58 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: a fool in paradise

How about the suicide rate in Japan, which eclipses ours & is accomplished 99% of the time without the use of a gun?


14 posted on 03/03/2016 5:27:11 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Travis McGee

Greater gun sales is not even IN the NRA’s “playbook”. Their whole deal is RESPONSIBLE gun ownership, which includes the care, feeding, and grooming of guns, and training of practiced and judicious persons in possession of firearms of lethal nature.

Buying a gun without having practical knowledge of its use and proper times to take the device up is a recipe for disaster, as it happens on street corners and back alleys every day in cities that pride themselves on having the “most strict” collections of laws governing the possession and use of handguns within their city limits. Guns purchased, taken, or stolen for the sole purpose of intimidating others in the commission of a crime of violence are not, in and of themselves, necessarily inherently evil, but the persons who commit these crimes are very much evil, and should be treated as such to the fullest extent of the law each and every time they are arrested in conjunction with such a misuse of a firearm.


15 posted on 03/03/2016 5:27:42 AM PST by alloysteel (If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
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To: lowbridge

unregulated gun industry—I stopped reading right there. Figured it was a crap piece. The fire arms industry is one of the most(if not the most)regulated industries.


16 posted on 03/03/2016 5:32:11 AM PST by Duckdog (If your not on a government list, Whats wrong with you!)
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To: lowbridge

There are so many falsehoods in the excerpt alone that I will not go there.

They do not allow comments, because they know their lies will be exposed.


17 posted on 03/03/2016 5:47:54 AM PST by marktwain
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To: lowbridge

It’s getting harder for the left to argue that the NRA is scarier than ISIS. After accusing gun sellers of fear mongering, they start fear mongering.


18 posted on 03/03/2016 6:24:25 AM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: lowbridge

If not getting enough attention, change the meaning of “Mass Shooting” to mean 4 or more people at least nicked by a bullet instead of just being killed.


19 posted on 03/03/2016 6:27:39 AM PST by LowOiL (Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets.)
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Mass shootings ?? BS
Nope, its due to the increased racial tensions brought on by that POS 0bama and his peoples . ..


20 posted on 03/03/2016 6:30:45 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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