That can't be right, with all these states passing concealed carry laws.
Dr John Lott has documented that when the good citizens of a state get the right to carry concealed weapons, the murder rate, armed robbery, rape and assualt rates go down.
Then if the state has or adopts a three or two strike rule, the rate goes down again.
My favorite liberal contortion is when they try to explain how the (horribly problematic!) increase in prison population has nothing to do with the simultaneous (superfluous, meaningless) decrease in violent crime rates... especially when it is a hyper-liberal law professor!
(I thought I might really regret taking that Prisoners' Rights class, but it was truly a parade of entertainment for me! LOL)