Gun purchases appear to have jumped during the pandemic, based on FBI background checks. Steve Rattner joins Morning Joe with charts to discuss all-time high gun sales, mass shootings and an accelerating murder rate.
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A 12 year old and a 14 year old got into a shootout with police in Florida. I couldn’t even sleep after that. We are failing in so many ways.
Gun sales are up because some idiots want to defund the police.
and stricter background checks are needed. The gun stores need to do a better job too.
Youtube needs to remove accounts that promote gun ownership, who show off their piles, shelves or walls weapons that could be used in mass shootings.
—- what about the guy who legally 100 guns in 2020 and sold them to ppl in other states.
He got caught when the weapons were still registered to him and used by ppl with criminal records)
Can’t the store see that the ppl see that there are too many guns registered to one person? The store owners needs to be responsible too.
HAHA!!! And you know what? FACT: If NON-NRA people would quit shooting people, the murder rate would drop 100%!!!!! FACT: Joementia is on pace to break Hussein Obama’s record for the most mass shootings of any administration!!! Add this to the 185% increase in lumber, 38% increase in gas, 32% increase in food, 100% increase in corn prices, etc., etc. I guess liberals are ready to go broke in order to avoid those “mean tweets”!!
Thanks joe…but you don’t have to go to a gun shop to legally purchase a firearm … gun shows, private sales allow anyone to buy guns with no checks, perfectly legal
So according to Republican orthodoxy.., violent crime must be plummeting !!…fantastic! Guns and tax cuts for corporations/wealthy can obviously fix all problems ! Thanks Republicans !
Hell..I went out to buy a gun last winter. I’m 72, and although I shot 22 rifles and shotgun as teenager, I have never felt the need until trump.
This shouldn’t be normalized and it is… so pathetic that we have to have freaking graphs showing how MASS SHOOTINGS are increasing. DISGUSTING. This country is already doomed. And buying more guns isn’t going to make it any better no matter what the fear-mongers’ say.. how many of the thousands that have died by mass shootings have guns? Probably all of them… But yet they fell victim anyway… Enough said.
Ignorance. Hate. Racism. Conservative Christian nationalism and conspiracies are at an all time high!
Joe biden: im going to unify this nation
Americans: i need more guns
Again, all this “grasping of the pearls” over violence – in this case acted out with a gun, but not so much as a peek regarding the 2,400+ little girls and boys dissolved or torn apart in their “mother’s” wombs daily.
Why do they never talk about securing your firearms in a safe? Why not give a tax credit for a properly installed, approved safe? Most of the responsible gun owners that I know, already have one. But for those who don’t, give them an incentive. Then, also give a punishment if their gun is stolen and used in a crime, if they didn’t have proper storage. Why is this so frickin tough to figure out? Most guns used in crimes, on the street are stolen. Ask any ATF Agent. Then again, NRA doesn’t even want agencies to be able to track any firearms. They are dead set against any registration.
A lot of ppl are refusing to go back because their jobs can be done from home and after working from home and not being stuck in traffic for 2 hours a day! Yeah, my quality of life has gone up and I won’t go back to the office life is too short and I am just as productive at home as I am in the office
This shouldn’t shock anyone with an ounce of sense. MSNBC and other conspiracy firms, fed lies and encouraged terror groups like antifa and BLM to rampage across American cities for a year. Nobody should be surprised at all when Americans buy guns to defend themselves from violent left wing lunatics. Certainly doesn’t help with the buffoon in chief nominates a literal child murderer to the ATF and threatens to ban every firearm made after 1890.
Where there’s less guns there’s less gun violence. That’s the data. Those are the facts. More guns guns circulating legally, more to eventually migrate to the criminal element. You can have a gun in Australia, but you have strict hoops to jump to get one. It’s a massive responsibility with massive obligations attached to it. Very few here miss having guns floating around, even knives are hard to come bye. But at least you can outrun a knife. Just know that if the US government turns “evil” it won’t sweat bombing “the resistance”. Want to stop a take-over? Respect election results, stop trying to game the democratic process just because “it’s not technically illegal” and stop calling the larger half of your country “the enemy of the people”. Finally you don’t have a mandate from god, there’s no manifest destiny. You stole another cultures continent, have never been held accountable and have enjoyed relative geographic insulation from the old world’s, your ancestral home, problems. Stop lying, stop bragging, show humility – your bloods just as red as any other human being’s. Pretend for a second there’s no god and you only have one life, worldly or otherwise, and your legacy will simply be a account of how kind and understanding of others not of your own group. Nobody’s perfect but did you advance humanity’s cause as I’ve defined it? Would the Lord think less of you if you had done so, embraced your opponent rather than looking for more fights?
Americans love their guns. If there wasn’t so many guns around then you wouldn’t a. Need one and b. Need to use one! Stop rationalizing this American epidemic.
Way to go.America. More guns more gun violence. Let’s ride horses now going back in time to the western gun fight era.
Fewer legal guns means fewer opportunities for people to obtain illegal guns.
This is ridiculous. Guns should be reserved for service members and those with hunting licenses.
Is it from right wing nuts eager for a civil war, or people looking for protection from those anti-american right wing nuts?
Be cool an buy guns ! No background checks needed in pablos trunk
False flag mass shootings look how many mass shootings were when Trump was President compared to Biden so far super high gun sales because of tyranny and stupidity in the White House Al Sharpton is a hope you’re standing by while I got news for you at we’re all screwed also if you’re paying people to stay home they’re going to stay home
Proud Boy types should pay attention that the people they thought would be unarmed are also buying guns. It’s easy to act tough against someone that’s unarmed, much less when you’re taking fire.
The Republican Party is EVIL.