WI: Wisconsin Reaches 300,000 permits in Five Years; Homicide rate lower than Japan

Gun Watch ^ | 3 April, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Wisconsin started issuing concealed carry permits in November of 2011 In the last 53 months, they have issued 300,000 concealed carry permits.  The permit holders have been exceptionally law abiding.  Only one permit holder has been convicted of manslaughter when carrying a handgun under the provisions of the permit.  He plead self defense, but a jury ruled it manslaughter.  That is a homicide rate lower than that of Japan!

The average number for 2012 was over 105,000.  The average for 2013 was 175,000, and 223,000 for 2014, and 260,000 for 2015.  In the first four full years of the permit system, one permit holder has been convicted of an unjustified homicide.  I do not know of any homicide cases that are pending.  One unjustified homicide for  over 750,000 permit-years calculates to an annual homicide rate of less than .19 per 100,000 per year.  It is similar to the rate for permit holders in Minnesota. 

According to the FBI, the Wisconsin homicide rate for 2012 was 3.0, and 2.8 for 2013, and 2.9 for 2014. The Wisconsin permit holders homicide rate is about 6.6% of the homicide rate for the state.   The inference is clear.  If you want to be safe, stay with a Wisconsin permit holder!

From wisn.com:

Wisconsin's Department of Justice has issued 300,000 concealed carry permits since the law went into effect in 2011.

The department says concealed carry applications have been at record high levels in recent months and the high interest shows no sign of subsiding. According to a news release, the department's Crime Information Bureau has processed more than 19,500 concealed carry applications since the start of this year alone, putting it on track to far outpace last year's 45,500 applications.

 Part of the success of the Wisconsin permit system is that it does not require fingerprints or pictures. It uses the existing electronic background check system available to all police to check permit applications.  It has a wide variety of options to meet the training requirements.  The cost of the permit has been reduced from the original $50 to $40.  It could drop further.  Wisconsin law requires that permit revenues not be substantially higher than the administrative costs of the program.  In a press release, the AG said that he was proud of the program's success.

Attorney General Brad Schimel said in a statement that Wisconsin has always had a rich tradition of firearms ownership and he's proud to help citizens exercise their Second Amendment rights.

Wisconsin permit holders have been involved in numerous cases of self defence and the defense of others.  One of the more famous cases occured during an attempt at an armed robbery in a Milwaukee barbershop.


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[marktwain]

The homicide rate for permit holders is less than .2 per 100,000.

[Tupelo]

THAT is an interesting statistic.
I wonder how one would go about compiling one for all states. Including the “May Issue” states and never issue states.

[OttawaFreeper]

And Vermont is also one of the least violent places in North America and has never required a permit to carry a handgun either open or concealed. Gun prohibitionists really are that detached from reality, aren’t they?

[marktwain]

It is hard to do. Not all states keep statistics.

But where you can find the statistics, permit holders are more law abiding than police; and far more law abiding than the general population.

[DaveA37]

“I wonder how one would go about compiling one for all states.”.........

Although NOT a state, start with Chicago, you would be overwhelmed before you finished the first six months.

[Mr Apple]

HERE'S WHY

Sheriff speaks about 500 refugee children and 200 BCFS workers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_c62_F39XU

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"Barack Obama's target is to resettle 10,000 Syrians to the United States by Sep. 30.

Congressman Barton speaks following Lakeview tour
watch last 10 min / interview with 'church' organizer Matt Authier (on the take)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=59J0i3LNoY8

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With radical muslim barack obama injecting our country with 10,000 more muslims, it's no surprise that gun sales have gone up every year -for the past four years.

The FBI processed a record number of firearms-related background checks last year, indicating that more guns were sold in 2015 than in any previous year in American history.
More than 23 million checks were processed through the National Instant Background Check System in 2015, an all-time record.

freebeacon.com/issues/all-time-gun-sales-records-set-in-2015

[from occupied ga]

Also when you look at the ethnicity for Wisconsin, it consists of 7.1% blacks. If you compare to Tennessee which has a much higher violent crime rate you will find that 17.3% of its population is black. I don’t have the time to do a regression of black population vs crime rate by state, but I’m guessing that you would see a statistically significant correlation between the states with a higher fraction of blacks and their thug culture and a higher violent crime rate

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

What was the rate before the law?

[OttawaFreeper]

You could actually look at Tennessee even closer and see that the higher murder rate is probably a great deal due to the Memphis region alone, as I believe the Nashville (central) and Knoxville (eastern) regions have only low to moderate violent crime rates in comparison.

[from occupied ga]

The census site has the ethnicities, and you can get the crime stats from various sources, and this link shows you how to do a regression analysis in excel if anyone wants to have fun with this. Do your own analysis and don't rely on the lying media to give you (mostly false and distorted) information

[libertylover]

That is a homicide rate lower than that of Japan!

The average number for 2012 was over 105,000. The average for 2013 was 175,000, and 223,000 for 2014, and 260,000 for 2015.

He means the number of concealed carry permits is what is rising so sharply.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Murder rates are a function of demographics, not of weapons used.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/01/european-murder-rates-compared-to.html

EXCERPT:

In 2006 the Department of Justice issued a report on violent felons in large urban counties. It covered the period from 1990 to 2002, and included the 75 most populous counties in the United States. The study accounted for over half of all the murders in the United States in the covered period.

Revealed in the study was a simple breakdown of the demographics of the murderers that is not commonly available. Murderers were divided into three groups. Blacks were the most numerous at 46%. Hispanics were next at 27 percent. Non-Hispanic whites were last at 23 percent.

From the CDC:

[marktwain]

Murder rates are a function of culture.

Demographics are a cultural indicator.