Posted on 06/20/2022 11:07:25 AM PDT by rktman
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that justifiable homicides are rising in Philadelphia as concealed carries surge in the city.
The Inquirer lists three recent incidents in which individuals legally carrying concealed firearms shot and killed their assailants.
The paper then noted, “These sorts of deadly clashes in which the intended victims survive and assailants die are rare in Philadelphia, but are becoming more common as a growing number of people have legally armed themselves amid rising numbers of carjackings, shootings and homicides.”
The Inquirer observes that “justified homicides jumped 67 percent from 2020 to 2021.” And 2022 is on pace to surpass the number of justifiable homicides witnessed last year.
Philadelphia’s deputy police commissioner Benjamin Naish said, “We have seen an increase in the number of people that have been applying for and receiving a permit to carry. I think that they are concerned about their safety, and they’re carrying it legally, which is the big difference.”
On June 18, 2022, Breitbart News highlighted a CBS Philly report showing the highest annual number of concealed carry permit applications the city received between 2017 and 2020 was 11,814.
In 2021, the number of concealed carry permits skyrocketed to 70,790.
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People defending themselves and their families? It’s called justice.... The way it should always be!!
Dems want to reduce the numbers of criminals killed by taking away your guns.
As should be.
It’s a great way to reduce recidivism.
Fewer democRATs is what this sounds like.
Thanks for the update. If I need to cross the state line, it’s good info to have. If (and it is VERY seldom) I need to go over to Cali to play some music, I have to make sure the truck is cleaned out just on the off chance I get stopped.
For commie big city newspapers, killing in self-defense is lumped in with criminal homicide because the papers are supporters of every form of moral perversion, not just sexual.
"Justified" meaning the right guy got shot. Consider it successful social engineering.
Liberals enraged and saddened by the trend.
Police have been increasingly hesitant to use deadly force, fearing a riot response. Citizens protecting their lives don’t care.
2019 FBI UCR (the latest available)
340 police justified homicides (down from 457 in 2015)
386 civilian self-defense homicides (up from 333 in 2015)
There are now more criminals being killed by civilians in self defense than by police (MUCH more, since the FBI table only counts those self-defense homicides which were initially classified as self-defense, not those which a court later decided was self-defense)
Fair enough. Missing fathers is a huge issue in the community in question.
That said, and for what it’s worth, your original comment had more than a hint of menace.
Been called a “hauli” BTW...in sketchy curcumstances on Maui...wisely hightailed it...lived to tell the tale, happy to say!
Ha’ole. “No breath”.
Some aren’t too fond of white people.
I visit the big island and know locals so I don’t get harassed.
I’m a sort of Christian guy, no menace intended.
I am focused, however.
I predict violent crime will drop drastically in the near future.
The majority of violent crimes are committed by a small number of criminals. Generally under 100 in any area. Begin to remove these people and violent crime goes down. And while fiction tells you that you have just created a "power vacuum" that some petty criminal will rise to fill that is just not the way it actually works. You have to have something seriously wrong with your soul to enact violence on someone who has done you no wrong. There are just not that many people like that and as you remove the malevolent from the community the ones who might be inclined in that direction are discouraged from going down that path.
What the government refuses to do, the public steps up and
does.
No trial. No soft sentences. No millions wasted...
No officers having to deal with this treacherous person.
I say this is a good start. I hope it does increase
each year.
We don’t have many blacks.
Sounds like Japan.
Crime Stats: compare key data on Japan & United States::
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Japan/United-States/Crime
So it’s working to protect the innocent.
This cannot be allowed to continue.
Even happier to have hightailed it having now heard the literal translation!
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