Posted on 05/18/2010 6:48:45 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
Washington, DC--Concealed handgun permit holders have killed at least nine law enforcement officers in addition to 152 private citizens (including 15 shooters who killed themselves after an attack) since May 2007 according to the latest update of Concealed Carry Killers, a Violence Policy Center (VPC) on-line resource that tallies news reports of such killings. The web site, located at http://www.vpc.org/ccwkillers.htm, is updated monthly to include new fatal shootings since May 2007 by concealed handgun permit holders and any changes in the legal status of permit holders facing criminal charges. (Any concealed handgun permit holders who are eventually acquitted of their alleged crimes are not included in the tallies maintained on the site although the facts surrounding the shooting are detailed.)
The VPC web site categorizes the 95 incidents, which occurred in 25 states, and offers detailed descriptions of each incident (some incidents may fit into multiple categories). Of these incidents, 15 were murder-suicides involving firearms and 15 were mass shootings (three or more victims) that claimed as many as 11 lives at a time. Law enforcement officers were killed in Alabama, Florida (two incidents), Idaho, Ohio, and Pennsylvania (two incidents). All of the law enforcement killings were committed with guns.
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How many murders have occurred by NON-permit holders since 2007?
So how many unlicensed holders have killed people since 2007?
Actually there are a lot of good questions to ask.
How many of those shootings were justified?
Yeah, no bias there.
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I guess the concealed weapon drove the owner to crime.
How many people with drivers licenses have had accidents? Perhaps we need to ....
(The lack of logic continues on the left.)
Better yet how many murders did NOT occur because of a CCW.
So the non-LEO statistics include many instances of Concealed Permit holders pushing people out of windows? Good to know.
better re check their stats...for legal gunners.
How many of those shootings were justified?
How many of those alleged shootings actually happened?
In a nation of 300 million, those numbers are statistically zero. They are statistical noise.
Now, 40,000+ people dying in car accidents is a percentage you can sink your teeth into. Maybe we should abolish cars. ;)
I’m not clicking the link. Does it say how many of the 152 deserved to be shot?
Violence Policy Center is a left wing hate group. They are no different than the KKK, etc.
Anything they say is on the same level as any other Nazi-like organization.
Without knowing the circumstances of each of these shootings, the data is totally meaningless. Like most leftist out of context drivel.
I wonder how many USA citizens and other people illegal aliens kill each year?
They were “private citizens”.
Which of course is the same code phrase that the MSM use for the Taliban.
And to make it REALLY fair, what % does that correspond to?
I betcha the following is true...
(Murders by Non-Permit-Holders / Total Number of Non-Permit Holders)
IS GREATER THAN
(Murders by Permit-Holders / Total Number of Permit Holders)
That is 53 a year.
53/300,000,000 = 00.0000176667%
Not even statistically viable.
Gunner
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