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It's puzzling that so many Americans are choosing to arm themselves at a time when the FBI tells us violent crime and property crime have been falling dramatically for two decades.

It's only puzzling if you are looking at the causality backwards.

[CrazyIvan]

“It’s only puzzling if you are looking at the causality backwards.”

Saw the same thing in an Illinois paper. We’ve had CCW here for about two years.

“Even tho crime is down in Illinois more people applying for concealed carry permits”

Face palm.

[Starstruck]

It's only puzzling if you are looking at the causality backwards

I think you hit the pin on the primer.

[cyn]

// It’s puzzling that so many Americans are choosing to arm themselves at a time when the FBI tells us violent crime and property crime have been falling dramatically for two decades. //

Puzzling, lol! Obvious bias there, couldn’t *possibly* be that armed society = more polite society. Libidiot.