Posted on 08/11/2015 11:28:47 AM PDT by fredericbastiat1
John R. Lott Jr., author of the groundbreaking More Guns, Less Crime, and president of the Crime Research Prevention Center, published a study last month on the rapid growth in concealed carry permits during the Obama years that revealed some interesting takeaways.
Among them, Lott found that:
Between 2007 and 2014, murder rates have fallen from 5.6 to 4.2 (preliminary estimates) per 100,000. This represents a 25% drop in the murder rate at the same time that the percentage of the adult population with permits soared by 178%. Overall violent crime also fell by 25 percent over that period of time.The broader trend is illustrated below:
(Excerpt) Read more at benweingarten.com ...
More guns = Less crime = Less Democrats = More freedom = More guns...
So since you wrote it, what caused you to excerpt it?
Are you just looking for some hits?
I saw the last name and thought maybe the author is related to our Dean Weingarten.
Ping
The fact that he only posts “articles” from one single source doesn’t indicate anything?
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:fredericbastiat1/index?tab=articles
Gotcha. I see now what’s going on as he posted another article today and this time my coffee kicked in :)
Yep.
Old fredericbastiat1 is a douchebag blogpimp.
Homeboy is just using us as an advertising platform to get a few hits for his filthy little blog.
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