Gun stores in Missouri reported on Tuesday that they were seeing a spike in sales following the fatal shooting of teen Michael Brown and the ensuing confrontations between police and citizens.
Owner Steve King told the St. Louis Business Journal that his store, Metro Shooting, had seen a 50 percent increase, which he attributed to the violence taking place in Ferguson, a St. Louis suburb.
“We’ve sold a variety of handguns, shotguns and AR-15s (a semi-automatic rifle),” King said. “All of the sales are having to do with home defense. … Lots of people are afraid.”
Al Rothweiler, owner of Mid America Arms, experienced the same influx of customers flocking to his store.
“We were closed Sunday and Monday, but today, sales have been brisk, and the store is full of people,” Rothweiler told the Business Journal. “Everyone who bought today mentioned something about Ferguson.”
And that, ladies and gents, is exactly why the NRA loves seeing innocent men, women, and children gunned down in cold blood.
I’m scared of the negroes! I needs me an extra gun!
Flossie, the kids don’t need no dentistin’!
Ahh more guns, that will make the situation better. We can all relax now.
Iffin the police ain’t gone shoot ALL the negroes then it’s every patriots duty to make sure they kin do it themselves.
-Bubba Squatload
Soooo…blacks and whites still can’t share power in the US, but we expect the Sunnis, Shi’ites, and Kurds to simply put aside their differences, trust one another, and share power in only 8 or 9 years.