Posted on 10/15/2013 12:39:14 PM PDT by marktwain
The criminal homicide rate for the general population has been added to more accurately compare to the murder plus manslaughter rate for those with a Minnesota carry permit.
Minnesota is one of a few states that track crimes committed by Concealed Carry permit holders. When the Minnesota law was passed, an annual report of crimes committed by permit holders was required. The Minnesota permit is simply a permit to carry, the law does not discriminate between carrying concealed and carrying openly. Reports for the law are available for 2003, and 2005-2012 in pdf files.
The number of people with Minnesota permits that commit murder or manslaughter is remarkably low. Only three instances are recorded in the Minnesota Carry Permit annual reports for the nine years reported.
From the reports, the numbers of valid permits for each year are as follows:
2003 - 15,677
2005 - 32,885
2006 - 42,189
2007 - 51,347
2008 - 56,919
2009 - 69,313
2010 - 79,180
2011 - 91,221
2012 - 114,793
Total for the years listed - 553,524
Rate of carry permit holders committing murder and manslaughter/100,000 per year, .542.
Rate of murder in the general population in Minnesota, per 100,000 averaged for the years 2003, 2005 - 2012, is 1.78.
Update: Due to an alert reader, I have found a discrepancy in the comparative figures. The change is not large, but it is real. The rates given for the general population are labelled as murder, not murder and manslaughter. I was able to access official Minnesota crime book pdf files , which gives the numbers of criminal homicides, defined there as:
Criminal homicide involves those offenses of murderIt appears that this number would be equivalent to the aggregate of murders and manslaughters, as it eliminates deaths due to negligence.
and non-negligent homicide that are classified as
willful felonious deaths as distinguished from deaths
caused by negligence. “Attempts to kill” are scored as
aggravated assaults and not as murder. Justifiable or
excusable homicides, suicides, accidental deaths, and
deaths due to negligence are not tabulated in the state
homicide total.
“This is not the ‘Dodge City’ you were looking for.”
So... We MN permit holders aren’t holding up our part of the whole “blood in the streets” crap the DFL and the Strib were predicting?
Darn...
Reminds me, Gotta renew mine before next April.
I almost forgot in August. Guess I hadn’t needed it, recently.
;-)
The United States is 3rd in Murders throughout the World.
But if you take out Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC , and New Orleans, the United States falls to fourth from the Bottom for Murders.
These 4 Cities also have the toughest Gun Control Laws in the United States. ALL 4 Cities are controlled by Democrats.
It would be absurd to draw any conclusions from this data. Right!
There is a unique satisfaction in clarifying statistics, so that you know you are comparing apples to apples. Good job on the hard part.
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