[bravo whiskey]

Seems like the headline is backwards.

[CharlesOConnell]

The mind is the most powerful weapon. It may be that there's no causal connection. Fine, re-sample in a few years. If increased gun ownership is coincidental with increased crime, do something to reflect that trend at that time. However, the elites don't care about any of that, they want the common people powerless. Try this: Disarm the elites' private security. Then let's see how their tune changes.

[backwoods-engineer]

John Lott attacked in 3... 2... 1...

[JPG]

--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 and caused the murder rate has to drop.ped

[RandallFlagg]

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.

[RKBA Democrat]

I’d like to see a study on open carry states and crime.

[Kickass Conservative]

I’ll take Inconvenient Facts for $100 Alex.