Colorado Batman shooting: massacre prompts upsurge in gun sales

Between Friday and Sunday the Colorado Bureau of Investigation approved
background checks for 2,887 people who wanted to purchase a firearm – a 43
per cent increase over the previous weekend.

The checks are required before anyone can legally purchase a firearm in the
state of Colorado.

One gun store worker told the newspaper that on Friday morning, less than 12
hours after the shootings, he arrived at his store, Rocky Mountain Guns and
Ammo, to find a queue of up to 20 customers waiting for the shop to open.

“It’s been insane,” Jake Meyers told the paper. “A lot of it is
people saying, ‘I didn’t think I needed a gun, but now I do.’ When it
happens in your backyard, people start reassessing – ‘Hey, I go to the
movies.'”

The figures fly contrary to the debate Mr Bloomberg appears to be trying to
start. Following the tragedy Mr Bloomberg, something of a lone voice in
calling for tighter gun control, lamented the fact that neither Barack Obama
or presidential hopeful Mitt Romney showed any inclination to address the
issue.

Yesterday he suggested police officers are being put at risk by the continued
allowance of American’s to carry guns with relatively few restrictions and
expressed surprise officers do not go on strike until the situation is
addressed.

“Police officers want to go home to their families and we’re doing
everything we can to make their jobs more difficult,” he said, adding
that 48,000 Americans would be killed by firearms during the next
presidential term of four years.

“How anybody can run for the highest office in the country where 48,000
people are going to get killed in the next four years and not have a plan?”
Mr Bloomberg asked.

Mr Bloomberg was later chided by the Republican Governor Chris Christie, a
potential vice presidential candidate for Mr Romney, who while not
mentioning the New York mayor by name, said: “This is just not the
appropriate time to be grandstanding about gun laws. Can we at least get
through the initial grief and tragedy for these families before we start
making them political pawns?”

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