In Thursday’s episode of The Daily Show a segment entitled, “Baracknophobia – Post Election Edition,” featured a story about the significant increase in gun sales across the country in recent months out of fear that Barack Obama could win the election.
According to an article in the New York Times, citizens are worried that the new Obama administration will increase gun control and curtail a citizen’s second amendment right to bear arms.
A one-day record for the highest number of background check requests for gun ownership was set in Colorado just days before the election according to the article.
“We’re not really sure who is promoting the concept that a change in federal administrations might affect firearms possession rights,” said an agency spokesman for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Lance Clem, to Kirk Johnson of the New York Times, “but we do know that it’s increased business considerably.”
The battle over gun control has been prevalent throughout the campaign in many states where gun ownership is popular. The day before the election, copies of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette arrived at the homes of its readers wrapped in a plastic bag that read, “Vote Freedom First” and “Defend Freedom – Defeat Obama;” paid for by the National Rifle Association whose initials were printed on each bag.
Democrats responded by mailing fliers to citizens in Pennsylvania and across the country that stated that if Obama won the election, he would respect a citizen’s right to own firearms.
However, there are some who cannot forget last April when Obama made a comment to a group of supporters in San Francisco that some small town Pennsylvanians “cling to guns or religion” as a way to “explain their frustrations,” according to a report by CNN.
