Posted on 08/25/2014 8:09:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When’s the last time you heard any good news out of Chicago, at least as it relates to crime figures? Well, prepare yourselves for a change from the status quo. While the murder rate and gang violence are still bad – and frequently in the local news – the robbery rate has gone down recently. And the police think they might know why.
Since Illinois started granting concealed carry permits this year, the number of robberies that have led to arrests in Chicago has declined 20 percent from last year, according to police department statistics. Reports of burglary and motor vehicle theft are down 20 percent and 26 percent, respectively. In the first quarter, the city’s homicide rate was at a 56-year low.
“It isn’t any coincidence crime rates started to go down when concealed carry was permitted. Just the idea that the criminals don’t know who’s armed and who isn’t has a deterrence effect,” said Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association. “The police department hasn’t changed a single tactic — they haven’t announced a shift in policy or of course — and yet you have these incredible numbers.”
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Shazam! Who would have thunk it: More guns = less crime.
Impossible !!!
Throw in a gun friendly police chief and the rate will plummet. The murder rate in Detroit is down some 30% from last year.
Gee, imagine that. I am so glad to be back in the USA where I can carry again.
The progressive liberals are and will be forever blind to this glaring fact. Why? Because “their” gun control has nothing to do with crime or citizen safety and everything to do with their wishing to force all of us, unarmed, to comply with their unjust socialism, in which all with suffer except the liberals who will be the ones in control.
The heck you say!!!?
I live in a very nice, quiet, safe?? neighborhood, yet I carry when I walk my dog, and some of my neighbors know it and approve {yet I don't openly carry as I don't want to become a target}.
The bad guys want easy prey, unarmed and with no fighting skills and with wallets to match their waist size.
An amazing shift, completely ignored by the leftist press who’s job it is to support progressives not report any news that might lead people to draw a viable conclusion about human nature.
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