Common, why do you think gun sales and stocks rise after mass murders, or when gun control discussions surface periodically?

In a weird and sick way, gun manufacturers actually benefit from mass killings don't they?  Sort of a backdoor marketing strategy.

This is not surprising news.  Whether it is rational or nor, the fact that the President keeps mentioning gun control every time he talks about this incident of terrorism and the fact that the majority of people don't believe he is taking action to make them safer and they feel the need to take things into their own hand, are driving the increase in the sales of guns and ammo.

Tarnation wrote:

I predict record sales of firearms and ammo this December.

I would be shocked if it wasn't a record.  Anecdotally, I have heard a bunch of people talking about buying a gun for the first time or getting a concealed carry permit.

Besides the normal people worried about gun control/confiscation, the added factor of people feeling like they need to protect themselves from a terror incident is going to drive sales

As if gun news aren't already difficult to swallow a new gun shopping network is soon to begin ala QVC.