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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on August 14, 2019, 02:20:22 pm

Title: El Paso Gun Store’s Sales Double, Concealed-Carry Class Attendance Skyrockets
Post by: rangerrebew on August 14, 2019, 02:20:22 pm
El Paso Gun Store’s Sales Double, Concealed-Carry Class Attendance Skyrockets


Following the recent mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas Walmart, gun purchases doubled and the number of people seeking certification to carry a concealed weapon surged, the general manager of one of El Paso’s largest gun shops reports.

The boom in business after a shooting is something new, Michael McIntyre told Reuters:


Source URL: https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/el-paso-gun-stores-sales-double-concealed-carry-class-attendance-skyrockets (https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/el-paso-gun-stores-sales-double-concealed-carry-class-attendance-skyrockets)
Title: Re: El Paso Gun Store’s Sales Double, Concealed-Carry Class Attendance Skyrockets
Post by: skeeter on August 14, 2019, 02:25:07 pm
People want to take their safety into their own hands?

Poor fools - don't they understand that red flag laws & background checks administered by a remote bureaucracy will keep them safe?
Title: Re: El Paso Gun Store’s Sales Double, Concealed-Carry Class Attendance Skyrockets
Post by: PeteS in CA on August 14, 2019, 05:32:47 pm
People want to take their safety into their own hands?

Poor fools - don't they understand that red flag laws & background checks administered by a remote bureaucracy will keep them safe?

The old saying that "When seconds count, the police are just minutes away," was shown by the Gilroy and Dayton shootings to be too optimistic. In both cases the police engaged the shooters in less than a minute. IOW, "When seconds count, the police are just tens of seconds away."
Title: Re: El Paso Gun Store’s Sales Double, Concealed-Carry Class Attendance Skyrockets
Post by: Wingnut on August 14, 2019, 05:37:46 pm
People want to take their safety into their own hands?

Poor fools - don't they understand that red flag laws & background checks administered by a remote bureaucracy will keep them safe?

It is incredulous. Poor poor simpletons, the common clay of the new west.