According to Bearing Arms
California isn’t a gun-friendly state. We all know this. The state has done everything it could to discourage gun ownership and to demonize those who buy firearms anyway. It’s probably best described as hostile territory for anyone who believes in the plain text of the Second Amendment.
Of course, not all of California is anti-gun. There are large swaths of the state filled with red-blooded Americans who really do support the right to keep and bear arms. They’re just drowned out by places like Southern California with their high density of anti-gun voters.
Yet with the coronavirus spreading and hitting California worst than most, fears of the disease and what it might bring about have a lot of people worried. How worried? Buying guns worried.
Gun sales at some Southern California stores are surging in response to fears about the coronavirus.
“Normally, we’re a pretty busy store,” said Dennis Lin, owner of Gun Effects and Cloud Nine Fishing in Industry. “But this made it really, really crazy.”
Lin said his sales are close to double what they would be typically right now.
“Our staff is not accustomed to this kind of rush,” said Lin, who thinks fears concerning the coronavirus are overblown. “I think people need to gather themselves a little bit and take a step back.”
Many customers at Lin’s store are Asian. And Lin said some of them are buying guns out of fear of being racially targeted because of the origin of the coronavirus.
Honestly, faulting Asians simply because they’re Asian is beyond stupid. However, I note that in a state where gun control advocates have apparently done a very good job of telling people they don’t need a gun, what do these folks do when they feel threatened?