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I say the the real difference between Chicago and Montpellier is not their level of gun control. It is their number of available criminals.
I'm with you. It's easy to say "concealed carry reduces crime," and I'm sure it does, but then here's always the outlier that spoils the meme.
Michigan has very good "shall issue" CPL laws and no restrictive handgun magazine limits or "approved for sale" lists, but Detroit and Flint continue to rank #1 in crime rankings for their respective city size categories.
(Of course, there's the oft repeated quote by the Detroit Police Chief...)
That is like Memphis, we live roughly half hr outside of it in next county, our county is quite, most problems are hunters are on posted land or DUI’s. Memphis crime occupies the first 15 mins of our news. Memphis is the Crime Capitol of TN and has the worst schools in the state, Nashville has less crime and it is a bigger county. The crime in Memphis is mainly inside the city limits, not in the county where there are many ‘tiny’ cities, which have their own government and PD. Takes a Memphis PD officer up to 30 mins to show for a shooting unless it is a Officer Down situation. Most of it is in primarily black neighborhoods to boot. And your GPS does not KNOW those bad areas.
The Memphis Penal Farm is a 11 month 29 day facility recidivism rate is 85%, serve rate 90 days.
In Tipton Co our taxes are lower, car ins, property ins, even the total cost of living is lower.