Gun sales up, gun injuries/deaths down. How can that be? Liberals keep telling us more guns = more death?

. and your source is the Sacramento Bee in Nor-Cal ????????????

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The main reason is, yes because it takes a while to cycle the firearms around, and also, since crime is generally down overall, there is not as big a demand for under-the-table gun sales. There is a Russian phrase, "the pig will find the filth". It basically means that if you don't give the person what they want, they will eventually find it themselves. So really if the bad guys would want to get guns and go shoot people, there is no stopping them from doing that, for there is less reason for them to do so. No reason-no shooting.

Gun buy-back programs are being initiated to get those arms that can be used in a inappropriate fashion out of the cycle. But the numbers being taken back are much lower than the numbers being put in.

Gun sales went up for one main reason... There were all those people who thought the world was ending on Dec 21,2012 and they wanted to be armed if they were among the survivors. Secondary reason is people are afraid of people who have access to weapons that are capable of killing masses of people. We all know about the events that took place in 2012 that pushed so many to purchase guns. I am a believer in the right to own guns. But to feel compelled to purchase a gun to protect yourself from crazy people who have open access to such weapons because the guns owners are not responsible enough to keep their guns secured is a sad state of affairs. I think we need a law that makes the gun owner face the same charges as the murderer if their guns are not properly secured and are used to kill someone. Maybe that would make for more responsible gun ownership.

Despite the protests of the NRA, California bans carrying firearms openly or concealed within city limits without a permit, and makes such permits difficult to get. Despite the protests of the NRA, California bans carrying loaded weapons in any place shooting is not permitted. The only places you can have loaded or concealed weapons are your residence and your place of business. Despite the protests of the NRA, California also bans assault weapons. Despite the protests of the NRA, California also bans gun show sales, requiring almost all firearms transfers to go through a licensed firearms dealer (which requires a background check).

It looks like restrictions that limit qualified gun owners to possessing and using firearms in a responsible manner actually work, just like the "liberals" say!

Hmmm.... let me guess: more guns = less crime?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Guns,_Less_Crime

if you have not seen the Clint Eastwood movie "Grand Torino", here is a relevant segment of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NelBNtNm8l0

It's a great, heartwarming movie which I highly recommend.

Of course Californians are arming themselves. Spent most of my adult life there and was way ahead of the curve. Darned LA County sheriffs confiscated my sweet little .32 Semi-auto pistol. That was a bad day and cost me a couple days in jail. Fortunately I have escaped from the Police State.

I of course denounce the State government in the strongest possible terms ;)

The reasons behind your statistical linkages may simply be that the same highly paranoid idiots who are already gun owners and are terrified that Obama is "coming for their guns!" continue to buy out ammo shops and gun shops, only to expand the inventory of their own collections of firearms and ammo stockpiles, (which, since they are really a waste of money for someone who already owns a single firearm,) makes them about as useful as the impotent rage of the people who own them.

California. One state.

There have been more than 100 deaths after Newtown.

Like the woman decorating the church, the firefighters, the cops in Jersey and so on. All were shot.

I can name more and I can also provide a link. So just ask, :)

Then guns must be good for you.

The budget should subsidize guns sales.

Charities should help the less fortunate acquire guns.

Those who already have guns should buy more and better guns.

Happiness is a warm gun.

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Read your own article: "gun sales in California peaked in the early 1990s, as violent crime also peaked."

Your article states that the reason is largely to a nationwide reduction in crime.

Until you compare the US to the rest of the world.

Then you find statistically in murders by fire arms that the US is has the highest rate of any other country.