Posted on 07/15/2015 11:56:47 AM PDT by rktman
Since President Obama’s election the number of concealed handgun permits has soared, growing from 4.6 million in 2007 to over 12.8 million this year. Among the findings in our report:
The number of concealed handgun permits is increasing at an ever- increasing rate. Over the past year, 1.7 million additional new permits have been issued – a 15.4% increase in just one single year. This is the largest ever single-year increase in the number of concealed handgun permits.
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As Concealed Carry Permits Now Soar, Guess What’s Happening to Murder Rates?
Ask the communists that want to take your gun away if they would disarm the Secret Service .
I have to admit that Obama’s DoJ encouraged me to get a CHP.
Ask any bad guy (or gal) what might be their biggest worry when they heist a convenience store or carjack an auto. It would be encountering an armed assailee (the word "victim" might not apply, as defensive gun use levels the field).
More CCWs means more risk for bad people, and that's a good thing.
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How can anyone claim that murder rates or any crime rates are dropping when a third of all policed departments don’t report their statistics to the FBI?
Or that half of all victims of crime don’t report those crimes to the police?
Baltimore and St. Louis did not get the murder rates dropping memo and Missouri now has some of the most liberal gun laws in the Union. CCW, OC, Amendment 5, etc.
Good question!
They forgot to count all of the people in Maine who can carry concealed without a permit now.
“Over 12.8 million concealed handgun permits, last year saw by far the largest increase ever”........
And a great deal more to come.
“How can anyone claim that murder rates or any crime rates are dropping when a third of all policed departments don’t report their statistics to the FBI?”
There are a lot of unknowns in the crime rates, to be sure. but the FBI Uniform Crime reports does account for departments that do not report, and projects the totals based on that.
It is clear that the number of reported crimes can vary from year to year, but likely not by a large amount.
So the measure, as a way to determine relative levels, makes some sense.
You run into this problem in spades when trying to compare international rates.
The U.S. is likely one of the most honest countries in reporting crime, and it has plenty of problems.
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