Gun Sales Rise After Cheshire Home Invasion

Gun Sales Rise After Cheshire Home Invasion
Security Company Says Phones Ringing Off Hook
July 26, 2007
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NEWINGTON, Conn. - State gun sales have shot up in the daysafter the wife and two daughters of a prominent Connecticutphysician were killed, according to a local gun shop owner.

Scott Hoffman runs Hoffman's Gun Center on the Berlin Turnpike. In the past few days, following the triple homicide in Cheshire,Hoffman said that people have been rushing to his store to buyguns for themselves and their homes.

"They're scared," he said. "They're scared for their own personal safety and their family's safety, their children's safety and they want a way to protect themselves."Hoffman said that the most popular weapon for both men and women looking to defend themselves is a defense-grade shotgun.

Hoffman credited the gun's popularity to the short waiting period -it can be obtained in two weeks as opposed to waiting 90 days for a pistol permit."We sell about 8,000 guns a year, and I'd say a majority of them are for self-defense," he said.

Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Jessica Schneider reportedthat residents questioning their sense of safety following the home invasion have also been calling companies that install security systems.

Joe Mitchell of Associated Security Corp. said his company's phones have been ringing off the hook."I had 15 phone calls on my phone by 9:30 in the morning," he said.

He said that security systems aren't meant to protect valuables anymore, that many people use them to protect their lives.
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Some people GET IT!

Note how long it takes to get a gun there though. 3 months for a handgun, 2 weeks for a shotgun. There's a label for that - I call it failure. Failure by the people to elect the right politicians, failure to strongarm them out of passing bad law, and finally, failure to punish them for grievous abridgement of the human right to self-defense.

And by punish, I'm not meaning VOTING them out of office.

"In certain...extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue...natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No, not vengeance. Punishment."