Posted on 07/10/2014 7:53:40 AM PDT by rktman
A study released by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) shows the murder and violent crime rate has fallen significantly while concealed carry in this country surged 130 percent.
According to the CPRC, concealed carry permit holders in the U.S. rose from 4.6 million in 2007 to 11.1 million during the time period of 2007 to 2013.
And during that span, as more Americans got permits to carry guns with them for self-defense, the murder rate fell from "5.6 to 4.4 per 100,000." This is a 22 percent drop.
"Overall violent crime also fell by 22 percent over that period of time."
The report indicates that the number of concealed carry permits is not only still growing, but is doing so at a "faster and faster" rate.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Has Jessie asked Obama to visit/fly-over crime ridden Chicago?
Violent crime would drop even further if we paid a reasonable price for perp scalps.
bookmarking to show to liberal friends, who will dismiss it without reading it
Sometimes the thrill of the hunt is payment enough.
US crime stats from 1960 to 2012 => http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
Meanwhile, Chicago, uber gun control city, has 60 shootings and 9 deaths over the weekend of the 4th.
None by white men who obeyed the law and bought their guns at a legal retail store and had the mandatory FBI background check. Duh.
Above link also has data for each state during the same time period. CA, for example => http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/cacrime.htm
So, you’re wasting valuable 1’s and 0’s that could be used to hide IRS email to show an article to someone you know that won’t read it? LOL! Sometimes you gotta know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em. ;>}
This is insensitive and offensive. It means the Trayvons would have to shave off their dreadlocks and afros and go bald to reduce the risk of being scalped. Really, you ought to wash out your computer's mouth with soap. Of course, the bald ones' ears could be taken in lieu of scalping.
Which shows they aren’t really interested in reducing crime or “gun violence”, and that’s just a ruse.
All they’re interested in is making sure people are subject to and dependent on gov’t.
They get it. Gun control was never about crime reduction. It's about making the citizenry helpless to resist tyranny. Liberals worship the state, and anything that empowers the state is good for them and anything that impededes the power of the state is not only bad, but blasphemy.
Absolutely correct.
They don't care about what guns do to the crime rate, they care what they do to the government's population control rate.
It's all about control with liberals. Control of free people. The removal of liberty from free people.
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