Beretta, Browning, Bushmaster, Colt, Glock, Marlin, Mossberg, Remington, Ruger, Sig Sauer, Smith & Wesson, Springfield, Thompson, Uzi, Walther, Winchester -- just a partial list of the companies manufacturing firearms sold in the U.S.
And thanks to our national gun policy, or rather the lack of one, these companies reap windfall profits every time some homicidal maniac uses a gun to commit mass murder.
It's been well-reported that in the aftermath of the Connecticut grade school slaughter, gun sales in America have increased dramatically. (True story -- A friend of ours happily told us that her husband gave her a .38 handgun this Christmas. Yessir, let's all celebrate baby Jesus with a lethal weapon! And shoot that fat guy in red who just broke in through the fireplace. Ho-ho-POW!)
Gun sales always spike after such tragedies. Two reasons why:
1. We have way too many guns available in this country, and it's way, way too easy to get one (or two, or ten).
2. After each well-publicized gun masssacre, the "bitter clingers"* -- never the brightest bulbs in the chandelier -- somehow become even more convinced that the government is going to confiscate their sacred firepower. In their paranoid, siege-mentality world, the only sensible thing to do is buy more guns.
God Bless America!
Meanwhile, the innocent gun-makers decry the senseless loss of life as they greedily count the till.
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*("It's not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or to antipathy for people who aren't like them." -- Sen. Barack Obama, April 2008, speaking of some disaffected Americans.)
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