[Renegade]

Scout Motto “Be Prepared”

[surroundedbyblue]

Mine just expired. Time to renew but I have to trek downtown for that with two babies. Anyone up for babysitting while I go renew my CCW??

[DesertRhino]

And the next study, the places with the highest participation rate are the lowest in crime.

The more a state prohibits and interferes with ccw, the more crime they have. It’s linear.

[Yosemitest]

Excerpt from John R. Lott Jr., Crime Prevention Research Center, 61 Page Paper, written: July 18, 2017 .

From Page 25

Instead of just comparing states that don’t require permits with those that do, it is also possible to look just at states that require permits. After accounting for the per capita number of police, new prison admissions, and demographics, this state level permit data suggests that each 20 percent increase in the rate of adults with permits (about one percentage point) is roughly associated with a 15 percent drop in the murder rate. Since the latest state level crime data is only available through 2014, the 2011 and 2014. (27)

Using permit and murder data from 2011 through 2014, we find that states with the sharpest increases in permits had the largest percentage drops in murder rates. A 10 percent increase in the share of the adult population with permits reduces the murder rate by 1.4 percent. (28)



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ln(murder rate) = -.2499 (7.15) percent of adults with permits -.8197 (5.50) police per 1,000 Americans – 0.0023 (3.41) Prison Population per 100,000 people + 0.0068 (2.51) year time trend -8.95 (1.76) Constant

Using the percent of the population in prison instead of a time trend produced very similar results.

(27) To estimate this we ran a couple simple regressions on the murder rate on the percentage of adult population with permits as well as with and without state and year fixed effects. There is a lot of noise in these estimates both because the permit numbers come from many different years as well as the estimated number of murders in 2013. These estimates have a great deal of measurement error and should only be taken as suggestive. That said, the simplest estimate regressing the murder rate on the percentage of the adult population with permits produces a coefficient and absolute t-statistics of - 12.68 (1.66). With fixed effects, the estimate was 6.8 (0.82).

(28) Regressing the percent change in murder rates on the percent change in the share of the adult population between 2011 and 2014 gives us this:

Percent change in murder rates = -.136 (1.38) the percent change in the share of the adult population + .212 (0.99) Constant

F-statistics = 1.92, Adjusted R-squared = 0.0242

We used the GAO report on percent of the population with permits for 2011 (http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/592552.pdf). There were obvious errors in the GAO report for Maine and Connecticut. For example, in 2011, the GAO states that there were only 4,000 concealed handgun permits. That would imply an amazing 725 percent increase in permits between 2011 and 2013. For a permitting system that had been around for decades and no recent change in their laws, it would be surprising to have any state see that type of change. Maine’s Special Investigations Unit told us that there were in fact 24,000 in 2011. Possibly the GAO simply left off the number “2” when then recorded this information. In Connecticut, we had a smaller number of permits in 2011 (115,000).

[Davy Crocket]

Back door of weapon registration...

[Pollster1]

America’s concealed carry numbers are 12 times as big as our armed forces, and our number of deer hunters is twice that.

“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”
Whether or not Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto really said this, it’s close enough to true. It’s the reason America’s enemies, foreign or domestic, cannot ever conquer the American people - and thus the reason why leftists want decent people disarmed.

[mabarker1]

16.3 million more people on the 1st Confiscation List.

[joma89]

With over 16 million CCWs, what is a possible end result of the situation in the video below if it had occurred in the United States?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EByegEhw8l0

Discuss.

JoMa

[Kickass Conservative]

There are a few States that allow Constitutional Carry, so no “permits”. I believe AZ and MS were added to the list during the Obama regime.

That 16.36 Million number is low.