When trouble gets here we can blow it's freaking head off!

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1889886,00.html

Gun sales are way up!

Two factors are fueling the rise. The first is political. It's no coincidence that a record number of background checks occurred in November, the month Barack Obama was elected President and the Democrats took control of Congress.

In a December survey by the research firm Southwick Associates, nearly 80% of active hunters and target shooters said they believed firearm purchases would "become more difficult" under the new Administration and a Democratic Congress.

"Thus far, the Obama Administration has done what they set out to do," says Joe Keffer, who owns a shop in New Holland, Pa. "And therein lies the concern."

The recession is another factor in the sales jump. Guns are expensive — Baker, for example, paid $200 for her shotgun — yet fear trumps the cost of a weapon for people worried that the economic crisis will lead to more crime.

This is an interesting article to say the least. I like this quote.

Roy Richmond, for example, just bought his first small handgun. He's the heat-packing pastor of a nondenominational church near Oklahoma City. He's carrying the weapon for protection. "Things are getting worse and worse," he says. "There needs to be some people out there with guns."

I agree; the gun control advocates are about to lose to reality. When looking at gun control from a logical standpoint - it only makes sense for the responsible people to have guns. The irresponsible people with ill intentions are going to do whatever is necessary to get or do "what they want". It only makes sense that the responsible people have the ability to protect themselves, or in some cases other people.

This last statement pretty much sums it up.

For gun-control advocates, this dynamic is bitterly ironic. Tough government talk against firearms, amplified by the Obama Administration's popularity, has actually helped spark a sales increase. It's yet another cost of good intentions.

I don't believe that reducing the number of guns amongst law abiding citizens is a "cost of good intentions". Come to think of it, nearly every time the government exerts individual control, touting good intentions, there have been adverse effects. This effect just happens to be a good one; in that people are buying more guns.

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