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Top Three Rated “Safe States” are Constitutional Carry States
Ammoland ^ | 9 September, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 09/11/2019 5:52:26 AM PDT by marktwain

U.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)- US News and World Report rates the states for public safety. The rating takes both property crime and violent crime into account. The ratings use the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data from 2017 for the article this year, as the latest data available.

The top three states for public safety this year are Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire. All three are Constitutional Carry states, which means no permit is required to carry a loaded handgun in most public places, openly, or concealed. That was the state of the law in the nation when the Constitution was ratified on 4 March, 1789. Constitutional carry existed in all states for the first four decades of the Republic. Then states and the courts started chipping away at the Second Amendment.

Vermont has always been a Constitutional Carry state. No permit has been required to carry handguns there since the Constitution was ratified.

Maine became a Constitutional Carry state in 2015. At the time, those opposed claimed that Constitutional Carry would increase street violence. From pressherald.com:

Tom Franklin, president of Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence, predicted that passage will lead to more street violence and deaths. The group works to prevent gun violence through gun safety and education.

“I believe this bill reflects the current state of dysfunction in Augusta,” Franklin said Monday night during a telephone interview. “It does not reflect the wishes of Maine people.”

He said his group is deeply concerned about allowing people to carry handguns without a permit.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: banglist; constitutionalcarry; maine; publicsafety
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To: brooklin

Ignorance and drug addiction too.
The FACT is that most of the HEROIN addicts in NH are white(Caucasian) race. However, almost ALL the distribution of the DRUGS is controlled by Hispanic gangs and members of the Mexican Drug Cartels.

It certainly is not the Italian mafia. It does not seem to be Black/African American gangs like in cities like Chicago.

Yes, child molesters/rapists/spousal abusers/alcoholics come in all races and creeds. Up until ten years ago that seemed to make up the majority of felony crimes in NH. Now, we are seeing a lot more drug related crime. Hispanics make up a much higher percentage of drug related crimes than Caucasian people do.


41 posted on 09/11/2019 11:25:31 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: BlueLancer

woodbutcher1963 has been sacked

the people responsible for sacking woodbutcher1963 have also been sacked.


42 posted on 09/11/2019 11:28:29 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Beagle8U

I hear they are very tasty


43 posted on 09/11/2019 11:29:34 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: marktwain

I live in the aforementioned tristate area.

I’m glad we have Constitutional carry. I’m glad we are so safe.

But our firearm laws aren’t why we’re so safe. We have severe perp deficiency. That’s why life is the way it is.


44 posted on 09/11/2019 11:34:18 AM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: marktwain; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; AZ .44 MAG; umgud; ...

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More 2nd Amendment related articles on FR's Bang List.

45 posted on 09/11/2019 11:34:52 AM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for <strike>Totalitarian</strike> COMMUNIST)
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To: DoodleDawg

“The three most dangerous states are also either Constitutional carry or open carry with no permit needed.”

Hmmm....

There must be some other difference, then. What could it be?


46 posted on 09/11/2019 11:35:44 AM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: brooklin

Rural has nothing to do with it.
The top ten states with the LOWEST population density are:

1. Alaska
2. Wyoming
3. Montana
4. North Dakota
5. South Dakota
6. New Mexico
7. Idaho
8. Nebraska
9. Nevada
10. Kansas
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/least-densely-populated-u-s-states.html

Yet, all of these states have higher crime rates than VT,NH & ME.
How do you explain that?


47 posted on 09/11/2019 11:50:25 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

Lewiston Auburn has both a Somali population and a Somali problem!


48 posted on 09/11/2019 12:50:43 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

“NOBODY, I mean NOBODY lives in northern Maine.”


Utter nonsense.

.


49 posted on 09/11/2019 12:56:30 PM PDT by Mears
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To: woodbutcher1963
NOBODY, I mean NOBODY lives in northern Maine.


50 posted on 09/11/2019 12:58:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DoodleDawg
The three most dangerous states are also either Constitutional carry or open carry with no permit needed.

CA, NY?

Which ones would those be?

51 posted on 09/11/2019 2:04:13 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Beagle8U

NH is not *run by liberals*.

There’s a Republican governor who has stopped the dems in their tracks and they are losing a LOT of support in the state.

Vermont is an anomaly, to be sure, but Maine is really more conservative as a whole. It’s only the cities of Portland which is screwing the rest of ME.


52 posted on 09/11/2019 2:06:55 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: VTenigma

Mehh...I don’t know...winters are pretty rotten in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Detroit... Just sayin.


53 posted on 09/11/2019 2:16:24 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Mears

I have been to Ashland, Me when the Levesque’s owned the sawmill in town. There is nothing west of there and a whole lot of nothing north there and south of there until you get to Bangor.


54 posted on 09/11/2019 2:26:02 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: dfwgator

“Nobody, nobody puts ketchup on a hotdog”

Hey, I can’t believe I did not get a response from you yesterday on the bridge jumper asking if it was on the Le Petomane Thruway?

The proper response should have been:
I wonder if he had to go back for dimes to get through the toll booth?


55 posted on 09/11/2019 2:33:55 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: brooklin
I am discouraged by a lot of the implied racism that is being displayed on this site of late.

It's not racism to mention the (well-documented) fact that certain ethnicities and subcultures commit a disproportionate amount of crime, and places that lack those ethnic groups and/or cultures also lack the accompanying crime rates.

56 posted on 09/11/2019 3:12:13 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: metmom

Michigan is more conservative than Texas, except for Detoilet and Ann Arbor.

Remove the ghetto in every state and the demonrats wouldn’t ever win another election.


57 posted on 09/11/2019 3:12:33 PM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: Beagle8U

That is so true.

For all the folks who blame the whole state for their liberal politics, it’s not the STATE; it’s the big cities in the state that control the politics.


58 posted on 09/11/2019 5:47:58 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: woodbutcher1963

I know,it’s sparsely populated, but to say NO ONE lives in Northern Maine is a bit of a stretch.


59 posted on 09/11/2019 5:49:49 PM PDT by Mears
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To: woodbutcher1963

Here in Maine, it appears that we are lazy... need to step it up some.


60 posted on 09/12/2019 5:36:56 AM PDT by brooklin
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