From the web site of the local ABC tv station, they have these gun shows every 2 or 3 months. I go fairly often because it's only about 3 miles from my house.
"Gun show goes on after Tucson shootings
By: ABC15.com staff, wire reports
TUCSON, AZ - Just a week after a man shot 19 people outside a Tucson grocery store, an organization called Crossroads of the West held a gun show, one of many it hosts in several Western states.
An estimated crowd of 4,000 showed up on the balmy Saturday, though the mood was less upbeat than past shows, organizer Bob Templeton said. Gun enthusiasts mingled in the county fairgrounds building, discussing Second Amendment rights and buying handguns, rifles and other weapons.
The group considered canceling the event, but decided Tuesday it would go on. Hundreds of people were lined up when the event opened at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Templeton said he doesn't believe the crowd was a direct response to last weekend's shooting.
"We were impacted as everyone else was and saddened by the tragedy that happened a week ago this Saturday, but that was really not about lawful gun ownership, in our opinion. It was about a madman who had an agenda and who committed unspeakable acts of mayhem and violence," Templeton said.
As for the increase in gun sales since the shooting Templeton said, "I don't think it's a response as much to the tragic incident, as it is to the fact that people are concerned about their gun rights."
Christina Brignoli, was at the gun show and said she could tell there was a difference.
""I can definitely tell a difference today, definitely today, because there's a lot of people here already, it's kind of early," she said.
Zac Brignoli said people may have more of a sense of wanting to protect themselves.
"I think people always do, and it's just one of those things where this tragic event has opened everybody's eye, like 'oh wow, this could happen at any time,'" he said.
One attendee said he hoped suspect 22-year-old Jared Loughner would be treated in a way that will discourage the next person thinking of doing what he did.
"Every now and then a nut gets a hold of a gun, and you can't do much about that," Thom Morrison said. "I wish you could, and I hope they treat him in such a way that the next guy will be reluctant to do that."
Templeton said the gun show was about exercising Second Amendment freedoms and individual gun rights."
Vern.
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Gun show in Tucson
Peace is that brief, quiet moment in history.......... when everybody stands around reloading.
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Looks like a reasonable report to me. A lot more reasonable than you see in the national media.
The quick fix news guys at the national level all have some kind of cure as they spring above the petty uncertainty of the population as a whole and editorialize. One cure that is on the top of the list of fixes is the "ban the high capacity magazine" thing. It seems to be a certainty, in the minds of the media experts, that a mass murderer would use an extended magazine for an attack on innocent people and insists that if we make all large capacity magazines against the law to own we will somehow limit the number of nut cases who want to murder people. It's as simple as that. That leaves me wondering.... So....at what point does a magazine contain too many bullets for the safety of the right thinking "journalists"? Is a ten round magazine safer to possess than an eleven round magazine? Safer than twelve round? But a 30 round magazine must be over the line by the present thinking....although it's not exactly clear where the line is. Perhaps someone can put an exact number as to how many bullets are the maximum that a person may be allowed to have for the good of himself and society? Nobody seems to be considering caliber. Would that make any difference to the magazine fix? Is a magazine with a a total of eight rounds of 45acp more or less safe than a 20 round magazine of 22LR? What about distance and kind of gun? If one nut had a 30 round Glock pistol, and another nut had an eight round deer rifle with a scope, and they were shooting at each other from 200 yards apart, who would have the advantage? How close would they have to get to each other for the balance of who is more dangerous to change?
An example the problem fix as a ban on large capacity magazines was editorialized on Need to Know on PBS the other night. Jon Meacham had this to say:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1744080506
The other "idea" presented by a congressman and mentioned by the talking heads as though it was a bright idea is to make it a crime get within 1000 feet of a politician with a gun. Now that is going to stop some crazy isn't it? Probably add another year or two to the the time he would have to serve. That will fix things. Yeah, right. What if I want crazy people with guns to stay 1000 feet away from me.....not being a politician? Anybody pass a law to "protect" me?
The quick fix news guys at the national level all have some kind of cure as they spring above the petty uncertainty of the population as a whole and editorialize. One cure that is on the top of the list of fixes is the "ban the high capacity magazine" thing. It seems to be a certainty, in the minds of the media experts, that a mass murderer would use an extended magazine for an attack on innocent people and insists that if we make all large capacity magazines against the law to own we will somehow limit the number of nut cases who want to murder people. It's as simple as that. That leaves me wondering.... So....at what point does a magazine contain too many bullets for the safety of the right thinking "journalists"? Is a ten round magazine safer to possess than an eleven round magazine? Safer than twelve round? But a 30 round magazine must be over the line by the present thinking....although it's not exactly clear where the line is. Perhaps someone can put an exact number as to how many bullets are the maximum that a person may be allowed to have for the good of himself and society? Nobody seems to be considering caliber. Would that make any difference to the magazine fix? Is a magazine with a a total of eight rounds of 45acp more or less safe than a 20 round magazine of 22LR? What about distance and kind of gun? If one nut had a 30 round Glock pistol, and another nut had an eight round deer rifle with a scope, and they were shooting at each other from 200 yards apart, who would have the advantage? How close would they have to get to each other for the balance of who is more dangerous to change?
An example the problem fix as a ban on large capacity magazines was editorialized on Need to Know on PBS the other night. Jon Meacham had this to say:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1744080506
The other "idea" presented by a congressman and mentioned by the talking heads as though it was a bright idea is to make it a crime get within 1000 feet of a politician with a gun. Now that is going to stop some crazy isn't it? Probably add another year or two to the the time he would have to serve. That will fix things. Yeah, right. What if I want crazy people with guns to stay 1000 feet away from me.....not being a politician? Anybody pass a law to "protect" me?