U.S. gun sales in March surged 25% to 4,691,738. This makes it among the largest single month since sales figures started to be recorded in 1998.
The increase is part of a trend. Gun sales in the United States rose 40% last year to 39,695,315. That represents the high water mark in annual gun sales since the current record-keeping system went into effect. Increases by state in March varied substantially, as has been the case for years.
This is where the click-bait article threw me, I never would have guessed what came next.
The state with the most sales in March was Illinois at an extraordinary 1,427,197. That is 30% of national sales for the month. However, the state has slightly less than 4% of the national population. The same pattern holds true for the state that had the second-highest gun sales figure last month. Kentucky’s figure hit 330,476, or 7% of the national total. Its population is only 1.3% of the U.S. number.
Dude!
Illinois is breaking records.
Understand that to buy a gun in Illinois requires a state-issued FOID (Firearms Owner ID) and comes with a waiting period. So if in Illinois, the trend of record high percentages of first-time gun owners holds true, I can’t imagine how swamped the Ilinois State Police are just processing FOID applications.
I have been trying to figure out what caused such a spike in Illinois. It must be that the people of the state have been watching the local news and seeing just how much of a lawless, violent shithole parts of Chicago have become.
Good job people of Illinois, I am proud of you.
The rest of America, you need to catch up to Illinois numbers next month.
Update:
I had not considered that the ISP runs background checks as part of the FOID issuance. I know they did, but I didn’t consider that these checks might be included in the background check count. In that case, there is probably a lot of double counting, i.e., one check for the FOID and a second check at point of sale. This number would also include background checks in FOID applications or renewals that don’t include a gun purchase.
Still, if you assume that every one of these is a double count, that’s still a lot of guns sold and a lot of new FOID applicants. So good job people of Illinois.
The first time I watched the ad for Citi’s True Name initiative, in which transgender actor Asha Doucet grapples with what self-identified first name to use on his credit card, I was deeply moved. The commercial captures him contemplating different choices like “Robert,” and “James,” before finally settling on “Justin” in a powerful nod to the sheer importance of being seen.
How devalued, I thought, would I feel if I wasn’t recognized by my name? And that’s coming from a cisgender woman who doesn’t face nearly the same pervasive issues as the transgender community.
However, when I showed it to my 9-year-old twin boys, they had no reaction. Zero.
It was then that I realized that my boys’ reaction—or lack thereof—was a sign that my children hadn’t yet learned the biases, conscious or unconscious, that so often cloud our adult lives. They hadn’t been exposed to the challenges and hardships within the transgender community.
No, it’s a sign that that 9-year-old boys do no give a shit about some dude picking out what name to use on a credit card, which is about the most pedestrian and banal experiences a human being in the developed world can have.
This is the commercial in question.
That is some really shallow woke bullshit. Seriously. Do you have any idea how hard it is to change your name on a credit card? Not fucking at all is the answer.
So two boys being nonplussed at this drivel is perfectly natural.
I would put money on them really wanting to play with Legos and really resenting mom making them sit there and watch a commercial about some guy trying to figure out what name he likes.
Mom, on the other hand, is aghast at her 9-year-old sons’ lack of fawning praise and woke tears at the heartwarming shallowness of Citibank virtue signaling to the Left by pandering to a tiny fraction of the population.
Since the birth of our sons, my entrepreneur husband and I have made a point to show that both parents have careers that are important to us. We both have demanding jobs that require early (and late!) meetings and, because of this, both parents share an equal responsibility for managing our home and family.
We do our best to cover for each other and step in to help with the kids when the other is stretched thin and we’re lucky to have a caregiver who does much of the heavy lifting when we’re both consumed with work. It’s not a perfect science, but embedding gender equality as a constant in our home, my sons have grown up with less exposure to antiquated gender roles.
Two corporate executives having a nanny raise the kids. Then mom occasionally shows up to sound like corporate HR.
I believe in the importance of showing my children the diverse array of family structures and as such, we’ve purposefully surrounded ourselves with families that look different than our own. From gay parents to biracial parents to single parents, my children have far more exposure to the non-nuclear family than I did growing up and, for them, this is the norm.
Hot damn is mom a racist. Does mom allow the family to have any friends that they actually like because of common interests or shared values, or are all of their friends selected based upon a diversity quota? Also, the erosion of the nuclear family is largely the reason America is in the shit condition that it is. Sorry, but it’s true. The fact that the non-nuclear family is the norm is a bad thing.
In my role at Citi, I’ve had the opportunity to help lead our efforts to drive diversity and inclusion. First, through championing the launch of our True Name initiative for transgender and non-binary clients, and also by driving more inclusive hiring processes and onboarding as we strive to meet our representation goals while fostering an environment rich with diversity of thought, experience and opinions.
At work and at home, I want to surround myself with that same diversity of thought.
I also strive to foster a culture of candor and inclusiveness at work by asking open-ended questions and soliciting different perspectives in everyday conversations to encourage diverse viewpoints. It’s important that whenever possible, we’re amplifying these conversations on a broader scale through town halls and panel discussions. For example, I recently participated in a candid conversation in front of thousands of colleagues on how I’m incorporating this year’s International Women’s Day theme #ChooseTo Challenge in my everyday life. In order to make significant progress, it’s discussions like these that are necessary to turn talk into action.
How candid was her conversation, really?
Did anyone stand up and say “maybe customers really don’t want their fucking credit card to mau-mau them over gender issues when all they want is a low APR and good rewards.”
I doubt it.
I feel very bad for this woman’s sons. They represent the majority of us who are bored and annoyed with corporate America shoving this woke bullshit in our faces, then doubling down when we tell them we don’t want to hear that shit.
Frontier and Spirit torment Jewish families over masking toddlers.
Delta opened its stupid mouth over Voter ID laws and getting political with Georiga.
Now United Airlines does this:
Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color. Learn more and apply now: https://t.co/VbOFvFOksBpic.twitter.com/r0ScH6MQAJ
This guy wrote a book, so you know everything he says is accurate.
Without a gun, you may have a fistfight and a bust lip but with a gun, you end up with the loss of a life. Guns kill but gun lovers will probably chalk this up as another successful defensive gun use. #gunsensehttps://t.co/VJXg9D2epU
I have put a lot of time on this blog documenting one punch kills. People who died after being hit in the head one time.
A punch to the head is no laughing matter. It’s not a busted lip and a bag of ice. It can be intracranial bleeding, traumatic brain injury, and permanent disability or death.
Paul Green is a moron who knows nothing about what he’s talking about and doesn’t care if you die, as long as it doesn’t happen with a gun.
Ignore the picture, that is The Hill race batting again.
No shit the black community is arming up. A handful of black communists and an army of white Leftist allies pretty much got politicians and the police to abandon the black community, and QED the black community is suffering from a crime wave like it’s the early 90s again.
Miguel and I have covered this quite a bit.
The interesting part is in the replies:
This tweet needs to an include a trigger warning for republicans.
This was just a drop in the bucket, it went on like this for a while.
Every single one of these people is a fucking racist. They hate the idea of black people owning guns but can’t come out and say it, so instead, they put that racist bullshit on the Right.
Nope.
Are you black, are you a law-abiding citizen, and do you want a gun to protect yourself?
Good. Buy one and enjoy the freedom and self-reliance.
Also, take note of what Progressives really think about you and your exercising of your Constitutnially protected civil liberties.
OTOH, this speeding wrong-way driver, making a dangerous pass in an intersection almost hit me head-on. Which the general public most likely would have viewed as my fault for rolling through the stop sign on a right turn on this designated “bike boulevard”. #BanCarspic.twitter.com/ugedhJiLTO
— Dr.BikeMom??♀️?♀️??? (@katalinscherer) April 2, 2021
Hell yes it is your fault. The car was avoiding two pedestrians on the road and was not driving at a very high rate of speeding either and you may have caught this if you had not run the Stop sign.
Cyclists are possibly growing to be most despised group of individuals on the road because of their entitled views, their penchant for ignoring traffic laws and their absolute lack understanding of the laws of physics. They truly believe they own the road and traffic rules do not apply to them and neither the basic rules of courtesy expected from those out there in public.
Hat Tip Andrew Branca.
UPDATE: It seems she got enough heat that she locked her account.
