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To: ninenot
Of course, I emailed him back again requesting SPECIFICALLY the stats on LICENSED CCW holders who assaulted police officers.

Professor John Lott, who analyzed FBI crime statistics for all 3,054 American counties from 1977 to 1994, reported, “No [CCW] permit holders have ever shot at, let alone killed, a police officer; instead, permit holders have on occasion saved the lives of police officers who were being attacked by criminals.”

A check of the Million Mom March’s collection of articles on crimes committed by CCW holders listed only three police officers being injured by gunshot wounds delivered by a single CCW holder ("Suspect No Stranger to Guns, Explosives"; Hartford Courant, September 4, 1998). All three officers survived. Of note is that the CCW holder was a former police officer.

In light of this information, LEOs have absolutely no justification to fear being shot by a CCW permit holder.

36 posted on 11/07/2003 2:06:56 PM PST by Monitor
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To: Monitor
In light of this information, LEOs have absolutely no justification to fear being shot by a CCW permit holder.

...but not from making stupid remarks, as did our DA.

38 posted on 11/07/2003 2:13:05 PM PST by ninenot (Democrats make mistakes. RINOs don't correct them.--Chesterton (adapted by Ninenot))
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