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Gun Control & RKBA

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)

12. It was isolated, but where it was isolated it was really bad.

Reply to Remmah2 (Reply #8)

Mon Jan 7, 2013, 01:41 PM

Jan 2013

"In the month after the storm, the Rockaways’ 100th Precinct saw a whopping 1,020% jump in burglaries. Looters also targeted Coney Island, which had a 171% spike in burglaries, and Staten Island, where break-ins rose 22%."

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/charged-disposed-sentenced-aggressive-disgraceful-nature-pols-wrote-preying-crisis-book-thrown-article-1.1231223

Some of it was just sickening. A Staten Island Sandy Relief Center was looted and then vandalized on Christmas day. What they did not steal, they destroyed. I'm sure they were just upstanding citizens looking to care for their family.

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More first time gun buyers? [View all] Lurks Often Jan 2013 OP

Is instruction for pistols required even if one does not carry concealed? Eleanors38 Jan 2013 #1

in CT a pistol permit is required to simply BUY a handgun, Lurks Often Jan 2013 #5

yes. all sizes, genders, races and ages. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #2

Yea, kind of thinking of the same thing rightsideout Jan 2013 #3

I know lots of first time AR/AK buyers. ileus Jan 2013 #4

Tomorrow, I am taking an old school friend, out to teach him how to shoot his new handgun.. virginia mountainman Jan 2013 #6

You should have seen what it was like in Southern California during and after the 1992 L.A. riots slackmaster Jan 2013 #7

After that, some of the new shotgun owners wanted to take their new home ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2013 #11

Sandy, looting? Remmah2 Jan 2013 #8

Saw some reporting in the NY papers Lurks Often Jan 2013 #9

I think a lot of times it isn't reported cmclane28 Jan 2013 #10

It was isolated, but where it was isolated it was really bad. Glassunion Jan 2013 #12

We have lots of experience with strong tropical storms and hurricanes in Florida. ... spin Jan 2013 #13

Not so much up here Lurks Often Jan 2013 #14