RUSH: This wasn\u2019t supposed to happen. “Firearms sales are surging in the wake of the Colorado movie theater massacre as buyers express fears that anti-gun politicians may use the shootings to seek new restrictions on owning weapons. In Colorado, the site of Friday\u2019s shooting that killed 12 and injured dozens of others, gun sales jumped in the three days that followed. The state approved background checks for 2,887 people who wanted to purchase a firearm — 25 percent more than the average Friday to Sunday period in 2012 and 43 percent more than the same interval the week prior.”<\/p>\n
This is not supposed to happen. The media and the rest of the Democrat Party are supposed to be able to use tragedies like the Aurora shooting to discourage people from owning guns. And, furthermore, they\u2019re supposed to be able to use tragedies like the Aurora shooting to get people to join them in the media, the Democrat Party, for more gun control. But instead, the event itself is having the opposite effect. The AP is appalled. You can hear the fury when you read the copy in the story. This is not supposed to happen. <\/p>\n
“Dick Rutan, owner of Gunners Den in suburban Arvada, Colo., said requests for concealed-weapon training certification ‘are off the hook.\u2019 … ‘What they\u2019re saying is: They want to have a chance. They want to have the ability to protect themselves…'” You know, Obama the other day said, “Yeah, my daughters, they go to movies. What if they\u2019d been in that theater?” Well, let me answer that. If Obama\u2019s daughters had been in the theater, there would have been Secret Service agents in there. At the first sign this guy pulled a weapon he\u2019d-a been dropped by the Secret Service. The results would have been quite different. <\/p>\n