Why all these gun shows at this time

[malaise]

I'm watching a line in South Florida where they went for assault weapons.
This culture is sick

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. We don't have more or less

Just more media coverage. They take months to organize and they tend to be yearly occurrences. At times six months or so.

[LAGC]

2. All this TALK TALK TALK about gun control is driving people into a frenzy!

The government needs to either shit or get off the pot. Ban them already, or quit jerking everyone around.

[Follow The Money]

3. why so much coverage of gun nuts on the corporate media?

the culture is sick, but the media is leading it and seems to enjoy it.

[malaise]

4. 100% correct n/t

[The Straight Story]

7. People in the media bought stock in gun companies

And are driving sales. Look for a lot of stock selling here shortly and then the story to move on to something else

[graham4anything]

5. I bet they have these every month or two, but only now are people paying attention

the halls are usually booked months in advance and advertise months in advance

(like concerts booked for summer already)

[sad-cafe]

8. It seems there is one every couple of months or so in our city

I don't think it is anything new, just more exposure now.

[11 Bravo]

6. Because the NRA does its job oh-so-well. Fuck all their gun safety and 2nd Amendment bullshit.

They are completely in thrall to the gun manufacturers, and everything they do is designed to ensure that their masters sell more guns. That includes stoking the paranoid fantasies of the hapless goobers who fear that the government is coming to take their guns.

[redstatebluegirl]

9. Same In Oklahoma

Seems like there is one a week these days, and I do think there are more of them now. Scares me some of the folks in line.... When interviewed they all think Obama is going to come take their guns so they need to stock up. Sounds like buying bread and milk before a snowstorm.

[Journeyman]

10. I suspect the gun shows have all been long in preparation, and are normal in number. . .

there are either just more people attending at this time (fear of coming restrictions), or the same number are attending as in previous years but the media is making more of a show of it (and there's definitely money to made from inciting people).

Has anyone done a comparative study between attendance in previous years and participation today? Or is it all dependent on the gun show promoters themselves pushing the idea that attendance is up? As when the media reports that "millions more have joined the NRA," how do we know this is true? Or is the media simply repeating what Wayne LaPierre is telling them?

[mokawanis]

11. Money and fear

They know demand is great so they're going to jack up prices and sell as many guns as possible.

Some people see the frenzy for assault weapons happening and they start thinking "my god, everyone but me is buying these powerful weapons! I better get one too, so I don't end up being the only guy on the block without one!"

You're right, this culture is sick.

[Hoyt]

12. Hope feds keep names of those scarfing them up - proof of illness. IMO.

Are they all white folks like the long lines at a gun show in Atlanta one week after Sandy Hook? With Obama President, possible gun restrictions, and increasing diversity, the yahoos are really worrying about not having enough fire power.

[JoePhilly]

13. Becasue a mass killing is great advertisement.

[libdem4life]

14. Paranoia ... meet Greed. In a strange way, I'm glad we are now forced/enabled to watch.

The subject has reached The Tipping Point. The scramble for weapons is in anticipation/dread of the absolute certainty of change in the prominent social tolerance for firepower.

I unfortunately predict both an increase in the reporting and an increase in the events of gun violence as evidence of the "death gasp" of a colonial musket-approved 2nd Amendment relic translated into a global wave of fear, paranoia and privilege, which has fastened and fashioned itself into the social equivalent of the political Tea Party.

Social media will be a factor in the demise...which is bound to come quickly as more and more express abhorrence of this disgusting display of misguided individual Terminator/Rambo-wannabes, or hope-to-bes, as the case may be.

[malaise]

21. That too

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. Seemed like there were a lot of Klan rallies during the Civil Rights movement

But again, it might have been just more media attention.

Not that I'm making an equivalence here.

[spanone]

16. nra's david keene blamed President Obama & Dianne Feinstein for the upshoot in gun sales

the nra takes no blame for anything

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/13/politics/gun-laws-battle/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

17. Always this many gun shows... just more media coverage now.

Just the same as gun violence and gun homicide. Gun deaths and violent crime have been falling steadily for a long time now. But the past decade has shown a distinct uptick in media coverage which give the public a false relative perception of violent crime. Unfortunately, 'if it bleeds, it leads' is now a common mainstream media tactic.

[Hoyt]

23. And more yahoos buying another for their cache.

Rather than media, NRA, etc., let's blame it on the sick people who covet these guns (of course NRA keeps pipeline opened).

[DanielW]

18. here

in Newington CT, Hoffman's gun store got 100 new smith and Wesson ar-15's with a 30rd mag and two boxes of .223 ammo for $730, sold out in 2 hours.

[GeorgeGist]

19. Status quo.

[malaise]

20. Ding ding we have a winner

Citizens follow their government and perpetuate the love of weapons

[Aristus]

22. Don't tell me the line surprises you.

Nothing brings the rednecks, yahoos and hillbillys skittering out of their trailers and tarpaper shacks like a gunshow.

When the Puyallup Fairgrounds host a gunshow, my wonderful little town becomes Shitbird Central...

[malaise]

24. LOL

You think it's more coverage rather than more shows?