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You mean the citizens that are being protected by the NAACP for testifying to the grandjury or the citizens that are threatening their lives, property and family because they didn't back up Browns friends testimony?
Neighborhoods like this aren't homogenous. They typically are made up of a lot a good people trying to get by and a small % of scum that prey upon them.
Agreed, most Ferguson citizens are law abiding, too bad a very vocal and agitated minority are not.
And it will probably get worse if this continues on.
Of course, this article leaves out that this is the first week of deer season.
And that personal security "demand is outstripping supply" because the 1700 police in the region are not allowed to work secondary duty right now.
So threatening violence is supposed to influence the outcome? How primitive.
Blacks do that because they know it works on white libs. There is nothing they fear more than black people rioting and looting.
Remember in 2008....blacks vowed to burn down Denver if Obama didn't win the nomination. It's a common tactic.
Agreed, the best is that many of the white liberal protestors that have been involved think the black protestors care about them. I hope if it does turn south there, some if the libs get caught in the ensuing malay and then go to the police for help
Let's get on with this already, how long can you keep an area of the country on a "state of emergency" for something that is pending? A few snipers will scare the looters quickly when they see some of their homies heads implode, the peaceful protestors have at it.
Of course, this article leaves out that this is the first week of deer season.
And that personal security "demand is outstripping supply" because the 1700 police in the region are not allowed to work secondary duty right now.
Of course, the article did say this:
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“A lot of them are first-time gun owners just wanting to have something to protect themselves and their homes.” He estimated that 90% of customers made verbal references to fears of unrest around Ferguson when making their purchases.
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Weinstein said he had sold 75-100 guns in the past three weeks and more in the past three months than all of last year. “It’s mostly handguns and a shotgun here and there,” he said.
Pistols and revolvers are expressly allowed for youth and early season (which ran this week), along with muzzleloading rifles and slug shotguns. A lot of cities in the St Louis metro (which is loaded with deer) disallow rifles but allow pistols and revolvers (along with archery).
Pistols and revolvers are expressly allowed for youth and early season (which ran this week), along with muzzleloading rifles and slug shotguns. A lot of cities in the St Louis metro (which is loaded with deer) disallow rifles but allow pistols and revolvers (along with archery).
Ok then so the spike in gun sales is clearly due to hunting and has absolutely nothing to do with the feces storm out there that's about to boil over.
I'm not surprised about all of those quotes at County Guns though. They are on the street where much of the violence took place in August and were one of the looting targets. Metro Shooting, also fairly close, has a spike too, selling a reported 300 firearms a week.
But the article mentions that sales are spiking statewide, and I am pointing out that the reason for that spike is almost certainly deer season. He sold 75-100 guns the last three week... St Charles Cabellas sold more than 300 every day last weekend.
Add to this that Missouri just deregulated firearms, in particular lifting many concealed carry restrictions and nearly all open carry restrictions (you can even legally carry drunk now). Far more people are eligible for concealed carry suddenly and it is easier to get; permits are almost triple what they were last year. That means more people who now have the ability to carry a concealed firearm.
Is it the citizens that are totally fed up with rioters or is it that the citizens are the rioters because they are totally fed up with the way they are treated in that town?
I used to live just outside of Ferguson, and I still have family that lives in the area. The way you pose the question leads one to believe that the citizens in Ferguson are somehow being treated unfairly, which they aren't. However, Ferguson has always had an element of "reverse" racism, and I know of numerous incidents where white people have been either verbally or physically assaulted merely for hanging out in the area.
Similar to how Ferguson citizens were trying to portray Brown as some sort of peaceful, easy going individual when in fact he wasn't, they are now trying to portray themselves as the victims of some sort of conspiracy by "the man" when they really aren't.
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