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"On the two-year anniversary of the shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz, a group of people held a candlelight vigil in front of St. John\u2019s Lutheran Church to remember victims of mass shootings and to call for a reduction in gun violence.View photosDozens of those who attended held candles and signs with victims\u2019 names as they stood next to 20 pairs of shoes that memorialized the first-graders killed at Sandy Hook Elementary.\u201CWe stretch out our hearts and our hands of the family and friends of those victims of gun violence,\u201D said Sacramento Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, D-Calif. \u201CEnough is enough.\u201DSgt. Jason Ramos, the spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Department, told KCRA 3 the number of people who own permits to carry concealed weapons is up in the county from 1,641 at the end of 2011 to 2,897 a year later.\u201CI think the biggest thing is having a federal fix on assault weapons and the high-volume magazine clips for ammunition,\u201D Sacramento Councilman Kevin McCarty said.Northern California gun shops claim sales have skyrocketed since the Newtown shootings -- and that anticipation of stricter gun laws jives with the December jump in people trying to expedite the process for getting a permit.Ramos said the number of requests for an earlier interview appointment jumped to 583 in December 2012 -- a considerable increase from 201 in November and 429 in October.Congresswoman Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, worries most about so-called loopholes.\u201CProbably half the guns here have not gone through background checks,\" she said. \"If you have private owners, you don\u2019t have background checks, so there are things that I believe need to get done.\u201DVice President Joe Biden will meet with representatives from the National Rifle Association and other gun-owner groups on Thursday.He is expected to make policy recommendations to President Barack Obama by the end of January."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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