I’d like to see the study that shows the correlation between CCW and the violent crimes they prevented.
I wonder how he study would be if they just looked at those states which had Shall License for at least ten years. That way we know how things are after people had time to get their guns. In Illinois there were/are lots of restrictions to slow down the permits. I would say that few people that want concealed carry actually have those permits.
Then you have to wait until the criminals get mowed down a few times for the deterrent affect to take hold. I am not sure what the numbers would be. But watching Illinois and Wisconsin, I see that concealed care is generally a good thing. But intercity black neighborhoods have and had guns. And they are less safe now under both types of laws. In other words, black neighborhoods have guns regardless of laws. White neighborhoods get more pistols when the laws allow. But black neighborhoods seem to go after blacks. Whites seem to rarely suffer from violence, even when they are next to a black neighborhood. Theft is an issue but violence is far worse for blacks in or near a black neighborhood than whites.
Seems the good doctors will use the “no correlation” between rates of CCW/lawful guns and crime in any way they wish. Fact is there has been a tremendous decrease in violent crime with a huge increase in lawful carry/possession of arms over the last 30-40 years. How no correlation in the decrease of violent crime per capita with a great increase in lawful arms is past me.
Kinda like saying a decrease in drownings while boating while increase in use of PFDs has no correlation....
Knowing the AMA etc, this will be used to say that increased arms does not make us safer....
However, when the criminal and the murderer comes to YOU and ME who carry concealed, it makes ALL the difference to our family.