No, not for the riots, the broken windows, the shootings, the beatings, the theft of property, the bricks that were thrown, the clogging of streets, the litter in the roadways, the unnecessary fires, the overtime we will all have to pay for government workers, and on the list goes. I’ll send you the itemized bill. It will be long and large.
But I do have to say that I’ve noticed what others have. Gun sales are at record levels.
More than 1.7 million firearms were sold in the U.S. last month, up 80 percent compared to last May. That follows a 71 percent surge in April to just under 1.8 million sold, and just under two million guns were sold in March.
Some perspective: The all-time record, following the Sandy Hook massacre and President Obama’s address vowing to make a major push for more gun control, was two million guns sold in January 2013. This chart shows a general trend upward for years. In September 2001, gun sales were only about 750,000, and that was a month when sales surged.
So we’re looking at just a hair under record gun sales for each of the last three months, totaling about 5.5 million firearms sold in 90 days. Presumably June gun sales will also be robust.
Oh, I assure you they will be. Sales are big somewhere near enough to me, and when I go down to my local Academy Sports somewhere in Gaston County, while there are the various shoppers buying odds and ends – coolers, chairs, and so forth – the main clientele are folks like me headed to the guns and ammo section because we know when the trucks come in. We know. Online sales are only so good. We must supplement.
Whites and blacks are there together, and no one is fighting. I’ve had many a discussion with black folk wanting protection from the thugs. The thugs. You know who they are. The brown shirts. Or in this case, the black shirts. They are white, they are black. But they are all communists.
Sure enough, it may not come to that and it may only involve fists and such. But if it does, suburban and rural America is more than ready.
My own chairman of the board of county commissioners recently wrote an article in a local paper and said “You can take my guns out of my cold, dead hands.” That was right before we became a 2A sanctuary county.
I’ve tried, my colleague gun bloggers have tried, and Lord knows, we’ve tried so hard. But we haven’t really been as successful as we’d like.
Enter, Antifa. You created memes. You made a hero out of folks who disarm you. You outed your sponsors, you showed what it takes to stop you, and you showed just how bad you are.
I’ve known it all along, me and my readers, the fact that the police aren’t there to protect us. We knew it from Warren v. D.C. and Castle Rock v. Gonzalez.
But now America knows it viscerally, existentially. They know it for real, in terms of home, hearth and family.
Congratulations! You did what I could never have achieved.
For that, I thank you.
