Texas Concealed Handgun License Murder Rates

Gun Watch ^ | 22 October, 2013 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Texas is one of the few states that tracks crimes committed by concealed carry weapon permit holders.  In Texas, the permit is called a concealed handgun license, or CHL.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has filed annual reports of the convictions of CHL holders from 1996 through 2011.   They wait two years to obtain final conviction information before publishing the totals, so 2011 is the last year that they have data for.

The number of CHL holders that commit murder or manslaughter is remarkably low.  From the DPS reports for 1996 through 2011  the number of murder and manslaughter convictions for CHL holders during that period totalled 30 over the 16 years. 

Link to Texas DPSpdf files, ConvictionRatesReports 1996 - 2011

DPS also reports on the number of active CHL holders for each year.   Those numbers were totalled to obtain the number of CHL holder-years.   The total number of CHL holder-years for the 1996-2011 is 4,295,434.  

Link to calendar year Texas DPSpdf files Reports on Active License and Instructor Counts1996 - 2012

The two numbers give us the ratio of CHL holder convictions for murder and manslaughter per 100,000 CHL holders.  That number is  .70 per 100,000.

The rate of  murder and manslaughter for the general population of Texas averaged for the years 1996-2011 is 6.0 per 100,000. 

Link to site with UCR Texas murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rates 1996 - 2011


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[rktman]

Thanks for the correction. Kind of like chitown today then. Lot of good that’s doing. Maybe they should pass more and stricter laws. Yeah, that’ll do it.

[Springfield Reformer]

Yeah, I have in my mind a disturbing image of all these CC Licenses lying around on the ground all full of bullet holes. Not a pretty picture. :o

[Springfield Reformer]

Oops, responding to wrong post. My bad. :(

[Springfield Reformer]

Re: That bad headline ...

Yeah, I have in my mind a disturbing image of all these CC Licenses lying around on the ground all full of bullet holes. Not a pretty picture. :o

[E. Pluribus Unum]

CHL holders are far more law abiding than LEOs.

[marktwain]

“In Tombstone, four men get killed in one day in a notoriously tough town and it creates a legend that survives to this day, some 130 years later”

It became a legend because it was such a rare event. Murder rates were extremely low at the time, as far as I can tell.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/armed-citizens-and-modern-frontier.html

[marktwain]

CHL holders are far more law abiding than LEOs.

Concealed Carry Permit Holders are One Third as Likely to Commit Murder as Police Officers

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/10/concealed-carry-permit-holders-are-one.html

[Starstruck]

It initially appeared to me that Texas was concealing the murder rates for those with handgun licenses. At least it caused me to read the article.

[Springfield Reformer]

Ha! Yes, a perfectly valid alternate reading. Oh the pitfalls of human language ...

[B4Ranch]

Because they don’t carry a badge too, I’ll bet ya! We need to get rid of them bad badges.

[marktwain]

“Because they don’t carry a badge too, I’ll bet ya! “

I think there is truth in that. Police know that they have immunities that the ordinary armed citizen does not.

Consider whether George Zimmerman would ever have gone to trial if he had been a police officer.

It never would have happened.

[showme_the_Glory]

Amish?

[mbarker12474]

Yeah. Golly knows their murdering and killing rate.