“While the concealed carry law was billed by its Republican backers as a public safety measure, a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that right-to-carry laws lead to increases in violent crime by 13 percent to 15 percent within a decade of their adoption.” I have no doubt that Professor Lott could easily take apart this ridiculous assertion (and probably others in the article) and show it to be completely unfounded. Using that logic, Vermont must have always been a very violent place in which to live and that Texas (after passing such legislation in the mid 1990s) must have become even that more violent (even though it’s murder rate went down to levels not seen since the late 1950s).
Also, a few months ago, a friend on FB shared an article that discussed the Milwaukee Chief of Police comments on gun control and how he personally disliked Wisconsin’s concealed carry law. I replied back, saying such a source and their comments on gun control are rather suspect, given the Milwaukee police department’s not particularly proud history concerning the Bambi Bembenek affair and also what was revealed during the investigation of Jeffrey Dahmer’s serial butchering of young men.
Police don’t like conceal carry for the same reason stadiums don’t want you to bring in food and drinks.