From the email

The following was sent to me in an email.    I get the humor of it - that Californians are paranoid (compared to the heartland of the US) when it comes to the subject of guns.    But while trying to "fact check" this email I made an alarming discovery.   Try this - type "california gun collector" into Google News (or your favorite search engine News feature) and see what you get.   I got less than 100 results.   The first test yielded twelve results (twelve) reslults.   A second search found fifty-six (56) results.

You might have heard on the news about a southern California man put under 72-hour psychiatric observation when it was found he owned 100 guns and allegedly had (by rough estimate) 1-million rounds of ammunition stored in his home. The house also featured a secret escape tunnel.
My favorite quote from the dimwit television reporter:
"Wow! He has about a million machine gun bullets." The headline referred to it as a "massive weapons cache".
By southern California standards, if someone even owning 100,000 rounds would be called "mentally unstable.

Just imagine if he lived elsewhere:
In Arizona, he'd be called "an avid gun collector".
In Arkansas, he'd be called "a novice gun collector".
In Utah, he'd be called "moderately well prepared", but they'd probably reserve judgment until they made sure that he had a corresponding quantity of stored food.
In Montana, he'd be called "The neighborhood 'Go-To' guy".
In Idaho, he'd be called "a likely gubernatorial candidate".
In Wyoming, he'd be called "an eligible bachelor".
And, in Texas, he'd be called "a deer hunting buddy".