Gun permits DOUBLED in Michigan in 2009

[exdetroiter]

Why must it have something to do with Obama being President, rather than the recession, crime rates sky rocketing and the overall economy. People wanting to protect themselves from all the criminals running rampant to eat and live, unlike ever before.

[Retroit]

Gun ownership usually increases when people feel that their government is planning to take away their freedoms.

[gibran]

Gun ownership usually increases when people feel that their government is planning to take away their freedoms.

then why did't it rise in last decade ...ummm [[kidding)

[Retroit]

then why did't it rise in last decade ...ummm [[kidding)

Good point. I should have said: "Gun ownership usually increases when law-abiding citizens feel that their government is planning to take away their freedoms."

[bartock]

Why must it have something to do with Obama being President, rather than the recession, crime rates sky rocketing and the overall economy. People wanting to protect themselves from all the criminals running rampant to eat and live, unlike ever before.

It has been well-documented that since Obama was elected there has been a huge surge in people applying for gun permits, etc. all around the country. Obama's reputation is that of being anti-gun. So, people who want guns have scrambled to get them. I don't think it goes any deeper than that.

[Baselinepunk]

Personal experience, filed under FWIW -- this shit started during the run up to the election and pegged after the election results were in. Doods on the internets gun boards were freakin` and now their outta their skulls.

BTW -- The in my post wasn't meant to imply that it's because Obama is a Democrat, rather something else that's pretty obvious. We're all too familiar with that 'tude 'round these parts.

Seen a Tea Bagger get together lately?

[ghettopalmetto]

I thought it was because people have started hunting for their own food during the recession.

[Quonset Hut]

Why must it have something to do with Obama being President, rather than the recession, crime rates sky rocketing and the overall economy. People wanting to protect themselves from all the criminals running rampant to eat and live, unlike ever before.

What else do you need...

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Eric Holder Was a Gun Control Nightmare


Friday, 21 Nov 2008 11:03 AM
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By: Jim Meyers

Barack Obama’s nomination of Eric Holder for attorney general will not sit well with advocates of Second Amendment rights — Holder has consistently championed stronger gun-control measures.
As deputy attorney general in the Bill Clinton administration from 1997 to 2001, Holder “was a strong supporter of restrictive gun control,� according to The Volokh Conspiracy, a Web site that focuses on the legal system and the courts.
He advocated federal licensing of handgun owners, a three-day waiting period on handgun sales, rationing handgun sales to no more than one per month, banning possession of handguns and so-called "assault weapons" by anyone under age 21, a gun show restriction bill that would have given the federal government the power to shut down all gun shows, and national gun registration.
“He also promoted the factoid that ‘Every day that goes by, about 12, 13 more children in this country die from gun violence’ — a statistic that is true only if one counts 18-year-old gangsters who shoot each other as ‘children,’� noted the Web site, founded by law professor Alexander Volokh.
After the 9/11 attacks, Holder wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post arguing that a new law should give "the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms a record of every firearm sale." He also said prospective gun buyers should be checked against the secret "watch lists" compiled by various government entities.
Earlier this year, Holder — who would become the first African-American attorney general — co-signed an amicus brief in support of the District of Columbia’s ban on all handguns and on the use of any firearm for self-defense in the home.
Holder also played a key role in the snatching of 6-year-old Cuban Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives’ home in April 2000, according to the Web site. Gonzalez was to be sent to Cuba where his father lived.

[ejames01]

When I took a CCW class only two people said that they were taking the class because they were afraid that the right would be taken away. Everyone else was gettice the permit to defend themselves from criminals.

[Zacha341]

It's not and either / or issue! All of those realities are factors..... as those who are purchasing CCWs vary in their reasoning, and decisions and choices on the subject and are not all from the same political group either.

Why must it have something to do with Obama being President, rather than the recession, crime rates sky rocketing and the overall economy. People wanting to protect themselves from all the criminals running rampant to eat and live, unlike ever before.