That's besides the point. I wasn't arguing a direct causal relationship so much as pointing out that more guns do NOT equal more violent crime.
The latter implies the former, so that's a bit dishonest. But this relationship certainly doesn't necessarily imply that gun-quantity does not affect the level of violent crime. Perhaps without so many guns the drop in crime rates would have been even greater? Prove me wrong.

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Here is a neat graph, illustrating the drop in homicides over the past few years while the ownership of high powered firearms has hit record levels. Notice the level of deaths caused by rifles and what direction they are moving in spite of record numbers of AR/AK buyers.
That chart is only for death by murder; suicide, homicide of accident/manslaughter... not reflected. Looking it up for myself:

Half of suicide by gun, out of up to 40000-a-year.

CDC lists 19400 by gun-suicide in 2010, so my approximation of 20K is about corect.

CDC further lists 600 killed (in 2010) by "accidental discharge" (an admittedly small figure), and 11000 gun "homicides" - I assume this means something over 2000 killed through manslaughter-by-gun, subtracting from the FBI figures for murder that you put up.

CDC: 31,672 firearm deaths in 2010. Suicide + homicide + accidental discharge and it adds up.

850 deaths by accidental discharge in 2011 - a leap of over 40%. Interesting... Also in 2011, a near-2% rise in suicide-death by firearm.

In 2011 (still above link), 32000+ accidental injuries by firearm.

As for historical trends on suicide, injury, and accidental-discharge death - someone else can do that; I've done my part.