The High Bridge Arms gun store in San Francisco is re-opening after a brief closure. Some in the neighborhood are protesting this saying they’d “rather have something the neighborhood could enjoy – a laundry or wine and cheese shop.”
However the Pink Pistols, a local gay gun rights group, would beg to differ.
God, I love San Francisco
A wine shop instead, eh? I found that there is no statistical correlation between gun ownership rates and gun violence rates– but I wonder if there’s a correlation between liquor stores and gun violence? Utah, which has one of the highest rates of gun ownership and one of the lowest rates of gun violence, and also one of the lowest rates of alcohol consumption, is anecdotally supportive of that theory…