The Inimitable Tiff

Just days before the Nov. 4 election, this story began to gain currency: gun sales were surging over fears that Barack Obama would be elected because he would take away everyone’s guns. In the days after the election, similar stories began to appear both in the national media (see here and here) and in regional papers too that all said essentially the same thing. One thing about journalists: we love those trend stories especially when other journalists have already declared it a bona fide trend.