Gallup - Majority Say concealed weapons make US safer
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Yeah, I know how you feel.
a disconnect between what you'd hope they see, and what they actually see. And who they're looking at
Picked up on the irony, did you? How splendid.
I'm surprised this wasn't posted earlier,
Most Americans are wrong about whether concealed carry makes us safer
Independent researcher and gun rights advocate John Lott introduced the notion of "more guns, less crime" to the national debate in 1998 with a highly influential book of the same name. Using county-level crime data, Lott arguedthat "allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths."
But that was nearly 20 years ago, and gun policy research has come away with far different conclusions since then. Some criminologists now consider that early work to be "completely discredited," in the words of the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.
In more recent years, academics investigating the relationship between concealed carry laws and public safety have found:
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Another article worth a look,
People with concealed carry permits have committed at least 29 mass shootings since 2007
Most Americans are wrong about whether concealed carry makes us safer
Independent researcher and gun rights advocate John Lott introduced the notion of "more guns, less crime" to the national debate in 1998 with a highly influential book of the same name. Using county-level crime data, Lott arguedthat "allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths."
But that was nearly 20 years ago, and gun policy research has come away with far different conclusions since then. Some criminologists now consider that early work to be "completely discredited," in the words of the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.
In more recent years, academics investigating the relationship between concealed carry laws and public safety have found:
- There are "no statistically discernible relationship between concealed carry policies and the public’s perceptions of the number of firearm carriers." Since the supposed deterrent effect of concealed carry laws "assumes that potential assailants are aware of the distribution of firearm carriers in the potential victim population... the data suggest easing concealed carry cannot deter crime" (Fortunato, 2015)
- "Right-to-carry laws are associated with substantially higher rates" of aggravated assault, robbery, rape and murder. (Aneja, Donohue and Zhang, 2014)
- "No support to the hypothesis that shall-issue laws have beneficial effects in reducing murder rates" (Grambsch, 2012)
- At the city level, there is "no evidence that [right-to-carry] laws reduce or increase rates of violent crime" (Kovandzic, Marvell and Vieraitis, 2005)
- "A 'shall issue' law that eliminates most restrictions on carrying a concealed weapon may be associated with increased firearm homicide rates" (Rosengart et. al., 2005)
- "No statistically significant association exists between changes in concealed weapon laws and state homicide rates" (Hepburn, Miller, Azrael and Hemenway, 2004)
- "Changes in gun ownership are significantly positively related to changes in the homicide rate" (Ludwig, 2002)
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Another article worth a look,
People with concealed carry permits have committed at least 29 mass shootings since 2007
And tell us how many shootings have occurred in Chicago since 2007...and I guarantee less than 5% of those guns had permits...so essentially your focus is on the 29 mass shootings in the last 8 years, but you are not concerned with the thousands of shootings by gangbangers who skip the permit process altogether...
Typical liberal stupidity.
Typical liberal stupidity.
Try the links in the first article. Don't fear the ability to read and understand. Try the last citation, Ludwig 2002.
and yet all the FBI crime data demonstrates the complete opposite of the assertions made above.
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/gun-control-myths-realities
4. States that allow registered citizens to carry concealed weapons have lower crime rates than those that don’t.
True. The 31 states that have “shall issue” laws allowing private citizens to carry concealed weapons have, on average, a 24 percent lower violent crime rate, a 19 percent lower murder rate and a 39 percent lower robbery rate than states that forbid concealed weapons. In fact, the nine states with the lowest violent crime rates are all right-to-carry states. Remarkably, guns are used for self-defense more than 2 million times a year, three to five times the estimated number of violent crimes committed with guns.