CA: Gun sales up - gun-casualties down

[PegLeg45]

I'm surprised that CBS even run this article.......

Calif. gun sales go up, number of gun-casualties goes down

(CBS News) LOS ANGELES - Gun sales in California are booming. More than 600,000 were sold in 2011. However by last year, sales had jumped to 817,000. That's an increase of 36 percent. But we noticed the number of people wounded by gunfire is dropping.

Business has been hectic for Aristotle Rogel, who works at a gun store in Burbank, California. Walk-in business is up 20 percent this month. Many customers are buying more than one gun.

Asked if his customers are buying now because they are afraid they won't be able to buy later if there are new gun laws, Rogel answered: "Well, absolutely. Stock up and see hopefully nothing happens."

California gun sales have steadily risen from 350,000 in 2002, to last year's record. Recently, some gun owners became worried that President Obama's reelection and the Newtown shooting will lead to more gun control. Military style weapons have become popular for target practice and self-defense.

Yet despite the rise in gun sales in California, there has not been a corresponding rise in gun deaths or gun injuries. Hospitalizations for gun injuries have actually dropped nearly 28 percent and gun deaths by 15 percent.

"When I see that the sales go up, I don't like that," said Charlie Beck, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. "My officers have to face these guns on the street."

Beck credits a five-year police crackdown on gangs for the drop in shooting deaths. Gang crimes account for half the homicides in Los Angeles.

Also, gun buyback programs have taken nearly 10,000 guns off of Los Angeles' streets since 2009.

"What I worry about are guns that fall into the wrong hands," said Beck, "guns that are excess and become unwanted in a home. Those are the kind of guns that my officers run into on the street that are used in murders in Los Angeles far too commonly."

But the police can't keep up. About 2,000 guns they bought back last week is roughly the same number sold in California gun shops in one day. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57561950/as-calif-gun-sales-go-up-number-of-gun-casualties-goes-down/

Chief of Police in LA still won't admit that more guns in legal hands equals less crime.

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Most gun crimes are bad guys killing other bad guys.     the only real way for the numbers to go down is less bad guys.

[PegLeg45]

Most gun crimes are bad guys killing other bad guys.     the only real way for the numbers to go down is less bad guys.

Yes...and the easiest way to do away with the most bad guys is to keep the good guys (civilian and police) well armed.

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I wish stoping crime was that easy.  Its not.

[PegLeg45]

I wish stoping crime was that easy.  Its not.

Sure it is.

If we simply rolled back all the restrictive gun laws nationwide, allowing CCW anywhere in the US, it would eventually work itself to a natural conclusion.
If enough armed, law abiding citizens were shooting bad guys, if and when necessary....along with bad guys shooting each other, we drastically decrease the bad guy population.
If every time a bad guy broke into a home or tried to harm someone he got his ticket punched, crime would dwindle. Interviews with incarcerated inmates have borne this out. Most say that their biggest fear when committing crimes was running into armed citizens.

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I would bet the farm otherwise.     the gang bangers and the drug dealers would still kill each other.  Not to mention there are plenty of people that will never carry a gun.  Even more that would carry one, but would not use it.