Posted on 07/30/2017 8:47:31 AM PDT by rktman
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit shot down the efforts by officials in the nation’s capital to severely restrict concealed carry permits earlier this week, and the nation’s leading researcher on guns says many more people are applying for concealed-carry permits. And the crime rate among those exercising that right is virtually non-existent.
In response to losing a series of court cases in its ongoing effort to restrict gun ownership in Washington, the city council instituted the “good excuse” rule, by which residents had to give an acceptable reason for why they wanted a concealed-carry permit. And living in a crime-ridden neighborhood was not a “good excuse.”
As a result, a microscopic percentage of D.C. residents are legally able to carry a gun outside their homes.
“D.C., at least at the beginning of July, had only issued 124 permits. You have over 500,000 adults in the District. That’s a very tiny rate. If D.C. issued concealed carry permits at the same rate that they’re issued in the 42 right to carry states on average, it would be about 48,000,” said John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and author of multiple books on the subject, including “More Guns, Less Crime.”
The number of permits approved in D.C. might be even smaller if not for the web of political influence.
“The problem is the type of people who get permits here are well-to-do, very politically connected individuals,” Lott told WND and Radio America.
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My excuse: I don’t want the people who vote for you to harm me or anyone I care about.
Go to Martin Luther King Ave in DC after dark and guess how many folks are carrying now without a permit.
Uhhh,, I wonder how many Judges on that 3 Judge panel carry?
Will these judges struck down the “good cause” rule so I wouldn’t be surprised if some or all carried.
Well*
Instead of a worthless restraining order abused women, should be given CCW classes, and allowed to buy on completion, at Police auction and at reduced rates a handgun for their new carry permit.
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