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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"they are quite literally trying to induce an arms race"
Making sure that criminals can get their hands on guns increases gun industry profits in two major ways. The most obvious is that if criminals are buying their products, gun manufacturers make more money directly. Even if theyre buying them secondhand, that increases demand on manufacturers, since someone has to buy them firsthand to sell them to the secondhand market.
But beyond just that, the gun industry benefits from having a lot of well-armed criminals around, because their presence justifies the purchase of more guns for the non-criminal consumer. Gun marketing is largely fear-based, which is why Wayne LaPierre is always on about how the world is just about to collapse into chaos and you need a mini-arsenal of his industrys products to protect yourself. They need people to believe that the streets are clogged up with criminals wielding guns, because thats how they convince you to buy more guns and bigger, more expensive guns. They are quite literally trying to induce an arms race, which is why, inevitably, the answer to every question of personal security is to buy more guns and line the coffers of the gun industry. If guns stopped falling in the hands of criminals and the nightly news didnt have a relentless flow of gun murders to report on, people might start to believe theyre safe, and they would buy fewer guns.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/20/universal-background-checks-threaten-gun-industry-profits-so-they-have-to-go/
RagAss
(13,832 posts)ChangeUp106
(549 posts)Which of course means armed guards. And who first proposed that idea?
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)The author has NO CLUE why people buy firearms, and even less of an understanding of the psychology of how people behave when prohibitions are being proposed.
villager
(26,001 posts)n/t
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)..then why the effin pass anything? What's the point? Seriously.
Why pass a bill the entire objective of which has been stripped from it?
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Oops. Forgot.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)It's like a score card.
Look! We got one!
Doesn't MATTER if it actually does anything.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)in 10 or 20 years."
adieu
(1,009 posts)the book by the cover and not its content.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)EC
(12,287 posts)wife beaters and small time hoods that are afraid of background checks. What else could I think?
badtoworse
(5,957 posts)where their civil rights are involved.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)-- Henry Miller in Tropic of Cancer"
Thus the defense business needs foreign enemies, the health care business needs disease, and the gun business needs criminals and violence.
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