The one-two punch of the Wuhan Coronavirus explosion, and the civil unrest of early 2020, led to an unprecedented growth in firearms ownership in America. All told, there were about two million firearms sold in the month of March 2020 alone. Between March and July, an additional three million were sold, with about half of those happening in the month of June.
Ammunition sales have similarly spiked, with record sales occurring on this website. However, gun owners don’t need a report to know that there has been a massive surge in demand for ammunition. They need only go down to their local gun store and see that all of the most common rounds are in short supply, sold out or being rationed at the point of sale.
- SAM JACOBS
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The Book of Ecclesiastes says that there is nothing new under the sun. And while many have spoken of the “unprecedented” nature of the rioting in the early summer of 2020, it is actually quite precedented.The Long, Hot Summer of 1967 was the peak of urban unrest and rioting in the United States in the lead up to the 1968 election. While there are certainly a number of key differences, there are also a number of striking parallels that make the topic worthy of discussion and examination.
The long-term impact of the urban unrest of the summer of 2020 is unclear, but the long-term impact of the Long, Hot Summer of 1967 and related urban rioting was a victory for Richard Nixon in 1968, and a landslide re-election in 1972. One must resist the temptation to make mechanistic comparisons between the two, and we will refrain from doing so here. But the reader is encouraged to look for connections between these events and more recent ones.
- SAM JACOBS
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Akana Shows Strength in Delivery Management, Portal Customization, and Security Policy
MINNEAPOLIS: Akana by Perforce has been named a “Strong Performer” by Forrester Research, a leading research and advisory firm, in its newly published report, “The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q3 2020.” Akana is noted for its “notable solution strengths” and “key capabilities that work well for coordinating API strategy across a large enterprise.”
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As you run amok like a wounded lion
Bombarding Lebanon with your cluster bombs –
The world is asking, and the posterity too are asking:
Is this offensive just for two of your soldiers
Taken captive by Hezbollah?
Or there is a hidden agenda you are pushing?
- JOHN ODEY ADUMA, SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
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