Gun sales surge in Miami

[mia]

Neither hurricanes nor 9/11 caused as big a surge in gun sales as coronavirus

Gun shop owners have never seen such a surge in sales — not after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, not in reaction to mass shootings, not even when Category 5 hurricanes threatened to flatten South Florida.

Fear and uncertainty about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic are motivating people to buy guns and ammunition as they seek protection from possible doomsday disintegration into lawlessness, with home invasions, looting, runs on banks, and fights over food, medicine, hospital beds and shelter across the land.

“Our sales are up 80 percent, with a huge increase in first-time buyers who are worried about martial law, economic collapse, unemployment, shortages, delinquents roaming the streets,” said Alex Elenberg, manager of Charlie’s Armory on West Flagler Street. “If you can’t defend your house and your family, what good are you?”

“We don’t know where the virus will lead and we don’t know if we’ll be able to depend on our law enforcement officers to respond,” Berrane said Tuesday, monitoring the line outside his Doral store. “People want to be more self-reliant.”

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241429346.html

[lsewpershad]

1. Maybe they

plan to shoot themselves if they contract the virus.

[mitch96]

2. I think they are wanna be preppers coming late to the game.. "CIRCLE THE WAGONS, PA!!"

They don't call it the "Gun-shine state" for nothing...
We have a gun related murder EVERY DAY here in So Fla...
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[pecosbob]

3. LA County closed all gun stores.

[hardluck]

8. Not anymore. That was rescinded

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-25/sheriff-suspends-efforts-to-close-l-a-gun-stores-amid-coronavirus-restrictions

[lagomorph777]

4. Are they equipped with sights accurate enough to hit a virus?

[Chainfire]

5. This is an indication

That the right wingers are now realizing that there is the potential for some huge negative impacts from the "hoax Trump Virus." They see that they may not have been getting the full truth from the orange one. They are reacting in the only way they know how; to prepare for the great class and race war. Many will see this as the time to take their country back. It is great recruiting weather for the right wing militias, and you can't be a soldier for freedom without guns and ammo. Unemployment provide the time, the coming check provides the resources. Plop down the card and lock and load!

The only thing left for them to do is find a way to blame the coming chaos it on the innocent, and continue to praise Trump, who has obviously been misled by the over-educated Liberal "experts." Fox will provide the scapegoats, and it will be the Democrats in particular and the Liberals in general. If you have not spent some time around these people, you can not imagine how much they hate you and all that you stand for.

They are buying guns and ammo to "protect" themselves from you.

MAGA

[PA Democrat]

6. I sincerely hope we don't start to see an uptick in gunshot victims

further straining the healthcare system.

[NickB79]

7. 7% of NYC cops called in sick yesterday alone

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2455468

That's 2400 fewer officers on the streets, in one city.

It's not the dumbest thing to think about personal protection at this time.