Patch Poll: Have Obama's Re-Election and/or Recent Shootings Prompted You to Buy A Gun?
Fear of gun control measures and safety concerns after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings have triggered gun sales.
As some people push for gun control, more stringent background checks on gun buyers or reinstituting the assault weapons ban, others are doing just the opposite—buying guns for the first time, adding more guns to their arsenals or at least stocking up on ammunition. Since 2008, when Barack Obama was first elected president, an estimated 67 million firearms have been purchased in the United States, according to the Kansas City Star—more than were sold in almost seven years before his first election. Nationwide, more than 2.7 million of those checks were recorded for December 2012, according to statistics kept by the FBI. Since late 1998, when federal law began mandating checks for prospective gun buyers, the only other month that exceeded …
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4:24 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
The poll question here is very leading in my opinion. I would prefer something more along the lines of: Did you purchase a gun(s) in the past 5 years ? If so for what purpose ? If for protection, from whom ? Criminals, foreign invaders, the government... ? Pick the one answer that best describes your reason. more ›