Americans have gone on a
buying spree for guns
Posted By: Ribicon, 5/30/2021 10:38:33 AM
Washington—It was another week with another horrific mass shooting. In cities across the country, gun homicides were climbing. Democrats and Republicans argued over the causes. President Joe Biden said enough.(Snip) In March 2020, federal background checks, a rough proxy for purchases, topped 1 million in a week for the first time since the government began tracking them in 1998. And the buying continued, through the protests in the summer and the election in the fall, until a week this spring broke the record with 1.2 million background checks. "There was a surge in purchasing unlike anything we've ever seen," said Dr. Garen J. Wintemute,
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Event Commemorating Tulsa Race Massacre
Canceled After Survivors Demand
$1 Million Each to Appear 32 replies
Canceled After Survivors Demand
$1 Million Each to Appear 32 replies
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Joe Biden Is Sick
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The 78-year-old President of the United States, Joe Biden, is not well. He is suffering from an obvious mental decline. Americans are not sure of his exact condition because he has not released any mental competency test results. When he was asked about it during the presidential campaign, he responded in anger and accused the news reporter who posed the question of being a “junkie.”
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‘Growing Violent Extremism
Movement’ Spreading The
‘Big Lie’ That Trump Won 25 replies
‘Growing Violent Extremism
Movement’ Spreading The
‘Big Lie’ That Trump Won 25 replies
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Don't they know guns are dangerous? And that life in the USA is more harmonious than ever?