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beevul

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Sat Jan 16, 2016, 05:21 PM Jan 2016

Europeans stocking up on guns after mass sex attacks [View all]

Europeans stocking up on guns after mass sex attacks

By Yaron Steinbuch January 13, 2016 | 12:10pm

Europeans — especially women and cops — are stocking up on guns for personal protection in the wake of the New Year’s Eve refugee sex attacks.

The number of gun permits issued has recently quadrupled in Germany and Austria after the attacks in Cologne and Salzburg, according to the weapons industry.

“Women customers include waitresses that need to get home in the evening, and women that walk dogs regularly in the evenings. We are also seeing some coming in to buy them for their daughters,” Gerhard Fuchs, a gunsmith in Innsbruck, Austria, told Central European News.

In August, fewer than 10 people obtained a license to keep a handgun at home for self-defense, while the number soared into the hundreds in October.

“I have completely sold out of pepper spray and have to wait at least a month before they can provide me with any more,” he told Central European News.

http://nypost.com/2016/01/13/europeans-stocking-up-on-guns-after-mass-sex-attacks/


The takeaway?

All the propaganda, talking points and dis/misinformation in the world, become meaningless when peope figure out that at the point of actually needing protection, only one person generally is able to fill that role: ones self.
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