Journal News, a local newspaper, accessed public records to obtain the name and address of every handgun owner in the county. ... Whatever check or balance gun ownership might provide on the government is completely nullified once the government has a record of the location of every gun in private hands. ... And with only 12% of Americans knowing that gun crime has gone down in the past 20 years I am not surprised. ...

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I am sure that citizens of the United States who are not convicted felons or mental patients can and do carry concealed handguns without posing a risk to their fellow Americans. ... Metropolitan Centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. ...

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I am sure there are multiple local, state, federal and civilian organizations and individuals just lining up to take advantage of the tragedy in Arizona. ... That is the highest annual increase on record, according to a new report from the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. ...

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