This clown makes a point.
He eyed Ruger and SW stocks after the Navy yard shooting by a guy with a Bidengun. They rose, and he declared, ergo, the gun debate is over. He couldn't report without taking a few shots as us, however. For example:
"Sturm, Ruger has been one of the best performing stocks on Wall Street since America elected a black Democrat president five years ago, and the tinfoil-hat brigade rushed out to stock up on guns."
Making us racist while skipping mention that the Navy shooter was black.
Making us the pulp Sci-Fi gobblers while ignoring the murderer's own terror at microwaves taking over his tortured brain.
Let him have his fun, even:
"Despite the news coverage, events like Monday’s aren’t really so remarkable. People with guns kill about 30 people (other than themselves) every day in America...
Which is an approximately correct number. it works out, according to the feds, to some 3.6 gun homicides per 100,000 persons living in America, per year. But it is revealing to do the arithmetic. Divide 3.6 by 100,000 and get .000036 per cent. Then toss out all of the slain young urban men with a criminal record and you can walk down most American streets with a cheery attitude.*
"Yet investors on Wall Street are betting that, despite all the hand-wringing and pious talk, no one will do anything. They are probably right."
Yep. Grin.
It is pleasant to have confirmation from our "markets" that those of us who endorse the moral right to self-preservation are -- so far -- occupying tenable political ground, no matter what sort of goof brings the message to us.
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