Nov 4th was a good day to buy guns; Record gun sales in CO after Obama victory

The USA has the world's highest rate of children being killed by stray bullets - due to the liberal sale of guns to all and sundry.

Hey, it never hurts to have a few guns around the house. My family has about 10, and no burglaries yet!

Hey I got my guns last year!

nufsenuf, the problem with that is that the people who had considered the government out of hand were liberals. Liberals are generally anti-gun (which is why I identify myself as progressive), and thus lacked the balls to pick up a rifle/shotgun/pistol and declare that they're not going to take it any more. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I wouldn't be surprised if the anti-gun trend was started a while ago as part of the Bush coup. Why try to ban fully automatic guns when the opposition party has already done it for you?

Gun rights are one thing - gun nuts, on the other hand, are an entirely different matter. The people who are currently flocking to gun stores, snapping up guns, scare me! Why? Because it is a knee-jerk response to fear-based propaganda, primarily supported by the NRA! Gee, what a shock! The NRA wants you to get all "up in arms" (HA) over a perceived threat to your 2nd Amendment rights! They want you to arm yourselves, just in case your government gets out of hand - AH, Hello? What's been happening for the last 8 years?? How many freedoms have been stripped from us during this time? If there were ever a time that the NRA should have been on, it's the last 8 years, so I'm just not really getting this whole "right to bear arms" thing. If ever there was a time that called for citizens to rise up, it was the last 8 years!! I'm not championing insurrection here, all I'm saying is this is more a political scare tactic and less a challenge to our rights as Americans!

Too bad I'm not 18, or I would have picked up a Taurus PT1911. Only $600 retail!
Anyway, good for Obama and good for the 2nd Ammendment. I'm a progressive and I support gun rights!

"How can people in the US feel truly safe knowing that there might be someone walking around with a gun hidden underneath his clothes."

I keep observing that anyone anti-gun seems to be buying into this belief that people are naturally bad. I imagine it stems from the media and their scare stories you see on the 10 o'clock every night.

If people were naturally bad our species would have died out along time ago. We have evolved to get along with each other and generally respect other peoples natural rights. Now that's not to say we are perfect in any regard, but just because someone owns a high powered rifle, doesn't make them a killer, or even a danger.

Here's a shocker............

The National Academy of Sciences has looked at gun laws and has not seen in one case where prohibiting firearms has decreased crime.

When you criminalize something that isn't really criminal, you turn good people into law breakers.

P.S. the term 'assault rifle' was coined by anti-gun nuts. An AR-15 has the exact same functions and basic parts as a deer rifle, it just looks different.

It seems alarming that people are buying up guns, especially automatic weapons, because they fear that they may become illegal. Soooo,, you're going to buy these gun because you're afraid that they'll be banned and then- you'll own illegal weapons?? I don't get it! Then what are you going to do with them, after they're declared illegal - go on a spree? Shoot up the local town hall, or sit in the basement cleaning them, muttering about Second Amendment rights, or what? Where's the logic in this? Makes no sense, and that's the scariest thing of all - Really!

Yes because Obama is going to wave his magical Obamawand and make all guns disappear tomorrow.

Man people need to grow and realize that one man will not abolish all their rights, we still have a system of government in place and if they really want to keep their guns they need to fight for them ( uh with their minds and thru petitions...not thru actual guns heh).

Also there are bigger issues at hand than gun control, I think Obama knows that and will tackle those before he even thinks about guns.

Some people take the "Right to bear arms" a little too far.
Guns don't kill people, but stupid morons who have a room full of guns probably will kill people, accidentally or not.

Amazing isn't it?

One RPG can flatten a tank but the wingnuts imagine that they can protect themselves from a full bore military assault with these toys?

Seen any heavily armed liberals in your back forty recently? Ever heard of any country where wool-gathering liberals have run amok on killing sprees? All the country's conservatives taken to the local sports palace for firing squad executions? Has that happened in the last 300 years?

They might argue you to death, but guns? Are all of you insane?
Paranoia has no limits.

I think they are in their right to be armed and although I don't fear Obama, you always need to have your guard up when it comes to the government.

It is important to have more than 100 guns so you can not keep control of all of them, some of them can slip out of your sight into kids hands and they can kill somebody either by accident or on purpose!

It is our right as American citizens to kill other people with hand guns! Haven't you read our Constitution? Geez! Stupid liberals!

I don't get it... I don't own any guns, I would like to own a couple of guns at some point just to I can occationally go out and shoot at some empty soda cans or maybe an occational watermellon. I'd like to own a rifle, probably a 30/30, a bolt action of some kind, and a .38 revolver. Oddly though, I'm not scared that the liberals are going to take away my ability to purchace or own a firearm.

Why would I not be worried?

Well first off the majority of liberals don't want to abolish guns and gun ownership. The majority of liberals want to make a more thurough background check necessary to keep people who shouldn't own guns because of either mental instability or criminal backgrounds.
Second, with the economy, foreign relations, and a war on two fronts to deal with, Obama is probably not going to have a lot of time to crack down on firearms and enhance gun control.

But who knows, maybe we're going to move closer to a communist state like people seem to fear... After all, we've come closer to former Soviet Russia during the cold war in the last 8 years of Bush than we had in the past century. What's the moral of the lesson here... Maybe rather than a party being communistic, it's the person in power. Go figure we had an extremely conservative president and we seemed to move closer to a Communist dictatorship than ever.

WTF???

I believe that good citizens have the right to protect themselves , the police is out number there is to many criminals on the streets. Remember the old saying " an armed society its a polite society". I believe the bill of right shouldnt be change at all.
The people that you see on the news going crazy with their guns are people who are under medication like :prozac,zoloft,ritalin,etc .How come there is no investigation about the sides effects of these medications? check all the shootings , all these people were under medication.
we put the blame on the right to own a gun but we dont put the blame on these drugs.
Another thing, by the time the police get to your house you are dead.

anyone want water for these salty crackers?

Ok, see, this is why martial law won't work here.

The founding father's put in the second amendment for political reasons. Without a check and balance our government would be a Dictatorship and the people will live in fear of their lives.

Thomas Jefferson said that the government should fear the people and that the power of the people is what keeps the government in check.

We the global community are the people and when we band together in unity not division we can make government do what we want them to do.

Conflicts Distractions and Ruses are what keep us fractionalized and in the us and them mentality.

Live Learn Love Evolve, Create-Greatness and give it away...

they're mad, huh?

Dumb rednecks. They are so sad!!!

if theyre really that worried they should invest in a tank instead of a gun.

Glad someone is buying something, because the stock market has sure gone to hell.

Hicks.

Why does the paranoid fringe always get the press? Are we really THAT fascinated by these people?

Why cant we all get along??? Does it matter what color your skin is? Too much racial tension

if we didnt have the 2nd amendment we would have more killing and also have the threat to Marshall law, if more people carried their own weapons less likely someone would want to pull a gun on you and steal your car. The people who are buying these guns are just standing up for their rights to own them, and they are scared of losing their freedoms, like we all have because yuppie rich brain dead motherfuckers let violence/drugs/poverty ruin our nation and for what another dollar.now they watch us through or tvs, tap or phone calls, go trough our computers. And for what??/ Terrorism?? These are people standing up for FREEDOM!!! not terrorism, we were the terrorist going into other country's and pushing our beliefs, and raping their woman. guns=protection of our freedoms as a WHOLE. what you going to do when we have civil unrest and you have cops and the army doing the same thing they did to the Jews? If more jews owned guns maybe Hitler's faget ass wouldnt have made it so far?? ever think of gun control like that instead of looking at it as who got shot.

god fucking bless ignorant America..blind to the media that has brainwashed a nation. not everything is just black and white.

KILL YOUR TV.

Why the hell are these people so afraid of Democrats stripping their rights away when it's the REPUBLICANS who have been secretly wire tapping us and have put an active army unit on US soil and want to make a 100 mile "constitution free zone" around our borders? I'm all for personal freedoms and the right to own weapons but you should at least have some grip on reality for Christ's sakes.

Ok people, If you think Obama has enough free time to deal with the second amendment then I do not think you are thinking about our position in the world and the fact that some people do not have $699 even to spend on healthcare. Than you are sad and selfish and not thinking of the U.S.A. Stop thinking Obama will do the things that have scared republicans for ages. He does not want to and does not have the time.
This is just bad for Colorado in terms of tourism. Whatever income they had from tourism might be decreased, if people make these type of frivolous purchases. It scares me to think that some of the people who have brought those guns are racist people with some sort of plan.

Gun freaks make me nervous. I own a gun even though i've never once felt like I need it. It's locked up so good if anyone did break in it'd take me a while to get it.

It's a SKS with a 30 round clip, got it and used it for target practice a few times with some friends and locked it up.

As long as laws keep guns out of the hands of criminals then i'm for gun laws. I've been robbed and at the time if I had a gun too then maybe one of us would have been dead instead of me missing some cash. I don't believe there will ever be a time when I need my SKS for my survival and I doubt i'll ever NEED a gun period.

Is this a statement about peoples fear of their second ammendmaet rights being currtailed? It seems it is more about the scare tactics that the far right has inflicted on our country for too long now. Home grown terrorist are no better than foreign ones.

I'm a big proponent of gun ownership. but i really think these people are paranoid nuts. Obama ain't gonna take away your guns. that is such nonsense. he hopefully might make some sensible gun control legislation to stop straw purchasing and stop mentally ill people like the VA tech shooter and the Dimebag Darrell killer from getting their hands on guns and whatnot, but you'll still be able to buy plenty of guns. no worries here.

Apparently the Pres. Elect was right after all. Insecure people are clinging to their guns.

This also shows just how ugly McCain's campaign really was, and what kind of culture it creates.

hells yes, your gonna need that gun to protect your Dale jr Nascar memorabilia from them liberals, you may even need to build a wall of Natty ice around your trailer for a barracade.

This is ridiculous. I am a transsexual and I need a gun to defend myself from people like this. I am for guns because I am defenseless, and hated. It is ridiculous how these big burly angry men say they need guns to protect themselves. Your wife needs a gun to protect herself. You will retain your right to have your gun. Now stop being angry, it doesn't make anything better.

Safe sales also climbed by 75%, is this because Obama's going to steal all of the haters money (or is a lot of this due to the economy)?

McCain's political ads appear to be the highest education level in CO... Maybe this should be entitled "Fearful People do Interesting Things"- However it is their RIGHT to buy guns...

This is good evidence of how successful the NRA has been with their Rovian fear-mongering messages, all these years. These are probably the same people who think Obama is a Muslim.... [irol]

There's nothing like narrow minded, fear mongering, hate-filled persons with stockpiles of assault weapons at their disposal to make me realize just how desperate the thinning herd of racists have become.
Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers are nothing compared to this.

there were not automatic assault rifles/weapons when the 2nd amendment was created...am I wrong? I wonder what the founding fathers would have to say about the invention of these dangerous weapons.

there was a similar article in our paper last week that I posted. People here really belive Obama will take away all their guns. I talked to a customer (I work retail) last night who said he would not be shoping for Christmas for anyone because he had to save his money to buy automatic weapons! I assured him no one wants to take away his guns. in a word: CRAZY!

Let people buy their guns, if anything its stimulating the economy. I don't know about other parts of the country but in N.M. if you have a traffic violation, you can't get q gun until it's paid. Our waiting period is 2-4 days to process your order, so you can't go home that same day. It would be nice to see a world that involved more peaceful actions towards one another. Unfortunately, that change is still yet to come. On the other hand, if shit does go down, do you want to be the only with a pistol in the middle of an assault rifle firefight? That 30 round clip is starting to sound like a good idea.

People do not need assult weapons to hunt or to defend their homes.

Looks like he is getting the economy moving again and he hasn't even been sworn in.

I am thinking of buying a gun for defending myself as well, but it is not from Obama, its these nut jobs I'm afraid of.

Well, someone was shot and killed near Denver last night. That's all the information they have so far, and Colorado doesn't really have bad gang violence like other cities. Just trigger happy methheads.

Those who are responsible gun owners shouldn't be worried about stricter laws.

But then these people wonder why their kids shoot up schools?

These are the people you don't want carrying all those guns to begin with.

Guns, booze, gambling and tobacco never lose.

Can anyone explain to me why ordinary folk need semiautomatic assault rifles with more than 30 rounds?