Posted on 04/21/2018 12:19:17 PM PDT by marktwain
Michigan Concealed Pistol License holders have an extremely low murder rate. Japan has a very low murder rate. Japan is also a very law-abiding culture.
The United States, as a whole, has a much higher murder rate than Japan. Within the United States, there is a law abiding culture that has a murder rate as low as Japan's. That culture consists of gun owners who carry guns legally.
The FBI generally includes legally defined murder, which may be in the first or second degree, and non-negligent manslaughter, in the definition of murder for their statistics. A more precise definition might be “criminal homicide”.
In Michigan, the State Police are tasked with compiling crimes committed by people who have the Michigan Concealed Pistol License (CPL). The State Police Reports are available from 2003 to early 2017. The state police report list convictions of people for murder, and manslaughter, as well as a multitude of other offenses. From 2003 to 2017, there are 14 years of reports listing criminal convictions.
Legally Armed People Have a Murder rate similar to Japan
Criminal homicides are the most reliable crime statistics to track, and the most important for comparisons with other societies. While there are significant differences in definitions, reporting, and recording of crimes from nation to nation, murders, or criminal homicides, are more reliable than other crime statistics.
In the 14 years of Michigan annual police reports, there are 17 criminal homicide convictions recorded by the Michigan State Police (MSP), for people
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One fourteenth as much as the population of Michigan.
who would have thought that law abiding CCW holders would abide by the laws! I know it goes against liberal teaching.
Michigan Concealed Pistol License holders have an extremely low murder rate. Japan has a very low murder rate. Japan is also a very law-abiding culture.
The United States, as a whole, has a much higher murder rate than Japan.
Within the United States, there is a law abiding culture that has a murder rate as low as Japan's. That culture consists of gun owners who carry guns legally.
Carry a big, honkin’ pistola bulging in your pants like the young man in the photo. That’ll bring the murder rate down.
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Only teasing. Many of us old farts tend more toward peashooters in pockets and on seats if anything. Fat, grumpy, slow bystanders, we are. ;-)
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I LOVE this guy’s research. We all know it to be true, but he gets REAL NUMBERS to prove it.
I have carried for most of my adult life and have never drawn my weapon.
I just feel ‘safer’ with it than not and do take my ‘freedom’ in hand when I travel as I am accompanied by my companion. Funny(?) that for the most part it is legal to carry when chances are I won’t need it, BUT illegal to carry where the danger is greater.
I like to say there are TWO things that when needed you better have as chances are you may never need them again.
A weapon and a parachute.
Also, I like to tell people that are trying to convince me that we ALL are better off by taking my weapon away that they must mean that if someone cuts off their tallywacker, rapes would go down.
Of course I get the old you are giving a bad example when in fact it is exactly the same, at least in principle.
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People who carry legally have a lower crime rate than even police officers.
Yes, it is so.
John Lott has shown this, and I have done some research on it as well.
https://www.ammoland.com/2013/10/police-officers-likely-to-murder-than-concealed-carry-permit/
Kunichiwa from the enchanted mitten!
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Got this in an email this morning:
WHY GRANDPA CARRIES A GUN.
A world history lesson...lest we forget.
The quintessential reason why Grandpa carries a gun. Please take time to read this, and pay particular attention to, “A Little Gun History”, about half way down. Why Carry a Gun? My old Grandpa said to me, “Son, there comes a time, in every man’s life, when he stops bustin’ knuckles, and starts bustin’ caps, and usually, it’s when he becomes too old, to take a whoopin’.”
I don’t carry a gun, to kill people; I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
I don’t carry a gun, because I’m evil; I carry a gun because I have lived long enough, to see the evil in the world.
I don’t carry a gun, because I hate the government; I carry a gun, because I understand the limitations of government.
I don’t carry a gun, because I’m angry; I carry a gun, so that I don’t have, to spend the rest, of my life hating myself for failing, to be prepared.
I don’t carry a gun, because I want to shoot someone; I carry a gun, because I want to die, at a ripe old age, in my bed, and not on a sidewalk, somewhere tomorrow afternoon.
I don’t carry a gun, to make me feel like a man; I carry a gun, because men know how, to take care, of themselves, and the ones they love.
I don’t carry a gun, because I feel inadequate; I carry a gun, because unarmed, and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.
I don’t carry a gun, because I love it; I carry a gun, because I love life, and the people, who make it meaningful, to me.
Police protection is an oxymoron: Free citizens must protect themselves, because police do not protect you from crime; they just investigate the crime, after it happens, and then call someone in, to clean up the mess. Personally, I carry a gun, because I’m too young, to die and too old, to take a whoopin’!
A LITTLE GUN HISTORY....
PLEASE DON’T THINK FOR A MOMENT, THAT THIS COULDN’T HAPPEN IN OUR COUNTRY ALSO !!!
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control: From 1929, to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up, and exterminated.
Guns, in the hands of honest citizens, save lives, and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the LAW-ABIDING citizens. With guns, we are ‘citizens’; without them, we are ‘subjects’. During WW II, the Japanese decided not to invade America, because they knew most Americans were ARMED!
Gun owners, in the USA, are the largest armed forces, in the World!
The purpose of fighting, is to win. There is no possible victory, in defense. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either.
SWITZERLAND ISSUES A GUN TO EVERY HOUSEHOLD!
SWITZERLAND’S GOVERNMENT ISSUES, AND TRAINS, EVERY ADULT, IN THE USE, OF A RIFLE.
SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE, OF ANY CIVILIZED COUNTRY, IN THE WORLD!!!
IT’S A NO BRAINER! DON’T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS, OF OUR TAX DOLLARS, IN AN EFFORT, TO MAKE ALL LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.
I’m a firm believer, in the 2nd Amendment! If you are too, please forward this. If you’re not a believer, please reconsider the true facts. This is history; not what’s being shown on TV, sanctioned by our illustrious, delusional liberals, in Washington.
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