Posted on 07/16/2015 2:30:25 PM PDT by richardb72
A report from a prominent economist finds that the number of permits to carry concealed handguns has skyrocketed by 178 percent in the last eight years, even as the murder rate has dropped.
The figures, cited in a study by the Philadelphia-based Crime Prevention Research Center, is evidence that legally-possessed handguns deter crime, rather than contribute to it, according to the center's president, John Lott, an author and Fox News contributor who has held teaching and research positions at Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, Yale and the University of Chicago. He said the huge increase in the number of permits issued to allow law-abiding Americans to pack heat shows attitudes toward firearms are changing.
"Americans have increasing come to believe that guns make them safer,". . .
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Seems like the headline is backwards.
You might want to look at the actual study.
There is a long appendix with a list of the academic research showing how right-to-carry laws reduce violent crime.
The headline IS ass backwards. But, then so is the lame stream media.
Correct
John Lott attacked in 3... 2... 1...
You know it is because the media can’t count the fingers on their lying left-handed tactics.
I just got back home after taking my Wife to the doc for a test. The office door has a, “No Weapons,” sign on it. Since it’s not a legal sign, I was CCWing the whole time. Nobody knew I was, either (Except my Wife).
As the Tennessee Marine recruiting office murder story was being played on the TV in the waiting area, I engaged in a conversation with the ladies at the desk. The TV showed the, “No Weapons,” sign at the Marine Recruiting office’s door, and I pointed that out to the ladies and asked them, “Do you people have armed security here in your office?”
They replied, “No. Only at the main hospital down the hill. We have no armed or unarmed security here.”
I then asked, “Well, do any of you have your concealed carry permits? Reason I’m asking is because they seem to be targeting places that have signs on their doors like yours.”
They replied with, “No. None of us have that. We’d really hope that they would bring some security people here eventually, though. We’re afraid someone will pull a gun here thinking they’d be able to get some drugs or something -and we don’t have ANY drugs here at all. There’s also the problem of storing patients’ firearms. We don’t have secure lockers to store them in when they go in the back to see the doctors.”
So I said, “How about changing your sign to read, “No weapons except for licensed concealed carriers? I mean, it’s the people who are legally carrying guns every day who are licensed that are NOT the problem. We’re not the ones you’d ever have to worry about, right?”
They all nodded in agreement.
I continued: “At least a sign like that would act as SOME method of deterrence for you. I mean, SOMETHING’s better than nothing when it comes to the safety of you folks and your patients.”
By then, my Wife was done with her testing.
And we left that thought to walk around in their heads as we said goodbye.
With any luck, every time they come to work and see that sign, they’ll remember our conversation.
I hope it sinks in.
Soon.
Good job!! I think I would have enjoyed being part of that conversation. I’ll take a closer look the next time I visit my doctors office, but I haven’t noticed such a sign.
Thanks.
Colorado’s laws regarding signs are pretty standard. If there’s a sign at the entryway of a private business, CCW folks can ignore it.
It was, however, VERY nice to, “Infect,” strangers with the, “Perhaps a gun might actually help my personal safety,” bug.
All three of the ladies there were VERY receptive of the idea.
I’d like to see a study on open carry states and crime.
I just OC. And smile sweetly.
I’m all for OC, but prefer CC.
I look kinda creepy, and might scare the carp out of those with nerves of tissue.
Never will I go anywhere willingly unarmed......never. Obama has races at each others throats, empowering criminals of all races and opening doors on a daily basis for terrorists....... Gun up people....seek out professional training, firearms and proper carry gear......
Stay Safe Flagg !!
Dittos, FRiend.
Stay armed.
Stay safe.
Stay alert.
Head on a swivel at all times when out in public.
How do people get used to guns being in their midst if they don’t see them? Its the achilles heel of CC in my view.
Yeah, but to me it’s a tactical issue.
If some hoplophobe poops in their pampers if they saw my sidearm, that’s one thing.
If some criminal piece of used food sees my gun and takes me out first, that’s another.
Also, I don’t carry a gun to educate people. This is Colorado (Where the liberal bastion of Boulder exists), and there are a lot of poopy pampers these days. Some of these people couldn’t be educated if said education was slammed into their skulls with a brick.
Got any training tips on doing this discretely? I must be doing it wrong.
My wife says my "head on a swivel" routine is as obvious as if I were open carrying.
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