For ScottGem,
I didn't have any statistics immediately available, I was not ignoring that request.
Here is some stuff for you to look at, if you want. Given enough time, I could produce more information on this topic, than most of us could read in one day.
Myth: Concealed carry laws increase crime
Fact: Forty states1, comprising the majority of the American population, are "right-to-carry"
States. Statistics show that in these states the crime rate fell
(or did not rise) after the right-to carry
Law became active (as of July, 2006). Nine states deny or restrict the right to carry.
Fact: Crime rates involving gun owners with carry permits have consistently been about 0.02%
Of all carry permit holders since Florida's right-to-carry law started in 1988.
Fact: After passing their concealed carry law, Florida's homicide rate fell from 36% above the
National average to 4% below, and remains it below the national average (as of the last reporting
Period, 2005).
Fact: The serious crime rate in Texas fell 50% faster than the national average after Texas
Passed a concealed carry law in 1995.
Fact: When citizens are allowed to carry concealed weapons:
• Murder rates drop 8%
• Rape rates fall 5%
• Aggravated assaults drop 7%
Fact: More to the point, crime is significantly higher in states without right-to-carry laws
Fact: States that disallow concealed carry have violent crime rates 11% higher than national
Averages.
Fact: Deaths and injuries from mass
Public shootings fall dramatically after
Right-to-carry concealed handgun laws
Are enacted. Between 1977 and 1995, the
Average death rate from mass shootings
Plummeted by up to 91% after such laws
Went into effect, and injuries dropped by
Over 80%.
Myth: People with concealed weapons permits will commit
Crimes
Fact: The results for the first
30 states that passed “shallissue”
Laws for concealed carry
Permits are similar. Here are
Some specific cases:
Fact: People with concealed
Carry permits are:
• 5.7 times less likely to be arrested for violent offenses than the general public
• 13.5 times less likely to be arrested for non-violent offenses than the general public
Fact: In Texas, citizens with concealed carry permits are 14 times less likely to commit a crime.
They are also five times less likely to commit a violent crime.
Fact: Even gun control organizations agree it is a non-problem, as in Texas – “because there
Haven't been Wild West shootouts in the streets”.
Fact: Of 14,000 CCW licensees in Oregon, only 4 (0.03%) were convicted of the criminal (not
Necessarily violent) use or possession of a firearm.
Fact: In Florida, a state that has allowed concealed carry since late 1987, you are twice as likely
To be attacked by an alligator as by a person with a concealed carry permit.
Myth: CCWs will lead to mass public shootings
Fact: Multiple victim public
Shootings drop in states that
Pass shall-issue CCW
Legislation.
Myth: People do
Not need
Concealable
Weapons
Fact: In 80% of gun
Defenses, the defender used a
Concealable handgun. A
Quarter of the gun defenses
Occurred in places away from
The defender's home.18
Fact: 77% of all violent crime occurs in public places.19 This makes concealed carry necessary
For almost all self-defense needs. But due to onerous laws forbidding concealed carry, only
26.8% of defensive gun uses occurred away from home.20
Fact: Often, small weapons that are capable of being concealed are the only ones usable by
People of small stature or with physical disabilities.
Fact: The average citizen doesn't need a Sport Utility Vehicle, but driving one is arguably safer
Than driving other vehicles. Similarly, carrying a concealable gun makes the owner – and his or
Her community – safer by providing protection not otherwise available.
Myth: Police are against concealed carrying by citizens
Fact: 66% of police chiefs believe that citizens carrying concealed firearms reduce rates of
violent crime.
Fact: “All the horror stories I thought would come to pass didn't happen... I think it's worked
Out well, and that says good things about the citizens who have permits. I'm a convert.”
Fact: “I... [felt] that such legislation present[ed] a clear and present danger to law-abiding
Citizens by placing more handguns on our streets. Boy was I wrong. Our experience in Harris
County, and indeed statewide, has proven my fears absolutely groundless”.
Fact: Explain this to the Law Enforcement Alliance of America, Second Amendment Police
Department, and Law Enforcement for the Preservation of the Second Amendment, all of whom
Support shall-issue concealed carry laws.
* 4 months ago
Source(s):
http://www.gunfacts.info/pd...