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07 Nov 08 - 10:13 AM (#2487561) Subject: BS: Obama-Fear is good for business From: Wesley S It seems that the election of Barak Obama has been great for business at the local gun stores. One part of the story mentions that the gun store owners best day of business previously had been 9/11. But the day after Obamas election he close to doubled those figures. What was it that FDR said? The only thing we need to fear is fear itself. Full story here FORT WORTH, Texas -- While watching Republican presidential candidate John McCain's concession speech, gun owner AJ Sullivan had a sinking feeling. "Liberals like to ban guns. That's what it comes down to," said Sullivan, 25, a Texas Christian University student. Sullivan was among hundreds scrambling to buy a weapon Thursday at the gun store Cheaper Than Dirt! - which sold $101,000 in merchandise the day after the election, shattering its single-day sales record, said store owner DeWayne Irwin. Stories were similar across Texas, where residents are fiercely protective of their Second Amendment rights and now fear stricter gun-control laws under Democratic President-elect Barack Obama. |
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07 Nov 08 - 10:20 AM (#2487566) Subject: RE: BS: Obama-Fear is good for business From: Stilly River Sage They're delusional, as usual. Welcome to Texas, Wesley. |
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07 Nov 08 - 10:23 AM (#2487569) Subject: RE: BS: Obama-Fear is good for business From: Wesley S I suspect this is not confined to Texas. And it's a shame that the most fearful among us are also the most heavily armed. |
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07 Nov 08 - 11:27 AM (#2487641) Subject: RE: BS: Obama-Fear is good for business From: Little Hawk Amazing. Here in Canada the general mood seems to be one of delight and profound relief that Obama has won. I doubt that our gun stores had much business on "the day after". |
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07 Nov 08 - 11:34 AM (#2487646) Subject: RE: BS: Obama-Fear is good for business From: Barry Finn Wesely, have you ever been to Texas??? Barry |
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07 Nov 08 - 11:35 AM (#2487647) Subject: RE: BS: Obama-Fear is good for business From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Gun Laws should be tightened up as much as they possibly can be. The world has gone quite mad with guns. Over here in England, gun crime rises every single year, dramatically. A few years back, we had no gun crime, our policemen and women carried no guns. It was something we were immensely proud of. I sat in my house that day, as the news came in. I can recall it vividly, 12 years on. With me was my small son, around 18 months old. He was sleeping. I picked him up and held him as close as I could, rocked back and forth, tears flooding down, as I stared out at the front garden, looked at the daffodils that were blooming so cheerfully, Spring just starting, life being renewed...whilst up in Scotland, Winter had come to stay forever, in the hearts of so many families. The pain I felt that day was terrible. I'd lost two little souls before him, so I know a little how the pain feels. It is indescribable. But their pain, their pain, their terrifying sense of loss, must have been unimaginable. Dunblane's Children My young daughter was in her school, just down the road, a small village school, just like any other.... She came home that day. The Children of Dunblane did not, because of one man and his guns. The mothers in my village went to collect their children early, on that fateful day, March 13th, 1996, as the whole nation went into deep shock. Columbine, Red Lake - Minnesota, Virginia, Beslan.... How many more? It isn't just adults killing adults anymore, not even adults killing children, it is the *children* themselves who are killing *children* We HAVE to do something drastic, right around the world, not just in the USA. Child soldiers in many parts of the world are told they must shoot their best friend, or be killed themselves, they grow up surrounded by guns, everywhere they look...but there is no love around them, only hate. WHAT are we doing, as a species? I truly don't understand. The purpose of life, surely, is to *live* with each other, not *kill* each other. If we have created a society where people are now so fearful, where there is so little punishment for those who attack, or threaten others, then that society MUST change, and FAST, so that it's citizens can feel safe again. So that they can sit in their homes and not have guns under their beds or in every drawer. That's not life, that's existing, waiting for something to happen. We have so many things to change. So many things which have gone wrong, because we've let them go wrong. WHY are there so many gun shops? Why are bullets on sale in supermarkets in the US? I think Wal-Mart finally agreed to stop selling them, after Michael Moore shamed them into it, but how many others sell them? We don't need guns. But heck, we do need Love. Today I read an interview with Michelle Obama, in which she said that Barack wanted to become President to make this world a far safer place for his children, for everyone's children. Let us pray that he succeeds. |
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07 Nov 08 - 11:39 AM (#2487649) Subject: RE: BS: Obama-Fear is good for business From: Wesley S Barry - I'm sitting in Ft Worth Texas right now. I've lived here for 28 years. |
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07 Nov 08 - 12:01 PM (#2487671) Subject: RE: BS: Obama-Fear is good for business From: Maryrrf Oh gosh that's scary! |
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07 Nov 08 - 02:47 PM (#2487842) Subject: RE: BS: Obama-Fear is good for business From: Gervase Lizzie, gun laws in the UK could hardly be tighter. People are killed with illegally held guns. Making something illegal doesn't stop it, I'm afraid. It just makes it a buggerance for people like me who do have firearms (securely stored and all legal to the satisfaction of the police) to go abut my life. |
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07 Nov 08 - 05:15 PM (#2487964) Subject: RE: BS: Obama-Fear is good for business From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Gun laws were tightened up after Dunblane, Gervase, that's true. They had to be. Thomas Hamilton was, after all, a member of a gun club, and therefore legally permitted to keep those guns and the ammunition he used. The mothers of Dunblane put immense pressure on the Government to change the law, and they are also part of the movement to bring in legislation in the USA. But yes, they need to bring in draconian punishments for those who carry guns *illegally* and ask why so many now have illegal guns, where they're coming from and why they're being used. The whole picture needs looking at, including asking why our children are being indoctrinated into violence, with video games, computer games, films, TV, killing, killing, killing, all the time. They're surrounded by it. If you create a society where the gun is seen as normal, then you're on a downhill slope, aren't you? It staggers me that the US has kept its gun laws as it has, purely because of a few words written down a long time ago, when life was very different and far less civilised, although I think civilisation has been going backwards for a very long time, until 3 days ago, when it changed direction. Sorry, Gervase, I don't mean to be rude over this, but I think the toughest legislation possible should be brought in over legal guns, and the toughest punishment brought in for illegal guns, especially in the USA. And in Texas, teachers have very recently been given permission to carry guns, albeit hidden away, in order to defend themselves from any students, or strangers, who are looking to be next on the list of those performing high school massacres. ???? Texas Teachers |