Here are some statistics for conviction rates for Texas CHL license hnolders:
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/administration/crime_records/chl/ConvictionRatesReport2006.pdf
All in all, it demonstrates CHL holders are mostly well-behaved.
Don’t think for a second that if there was no 2nd amendment that Obama and his merry men and women would not be devising ways and means to confiscate weapons from law-abiding citizens to reduce opposition. Remember Obama’s main goal is to destroy the opposition. Raise your hands if you believe I am full of s**t.
With an adult population of about 17 million, out of 24 million total, 260,000 of whom are CHL holders I calculate that just over 1.5% of adult Texans are CHL holders.
This 1.5% of the adult population is convicted of only .2275% of the crimes. This means that an adult who does not hold a CHL is 6.67 times more likely to commit a crime than an adult with a CHL.
I hope cops are real careful when they come up on a traffic stop and discover that the person they pulled over doesn’t have his CHL.
I'd like to see a similar chart for sworn law enforcement officers. I would bet a thousand dollars they commit more crimes than CHL holders, per capita.
I even recall reading somewhere that police officers are more likely to commit a crime than the average citizen. I don't know if that was based on actual convictions, or the number of times they were let go with a wink and a nod by a fellow member of the blue brotherhood, but it seemed like good data. Might have been in one of Kates's books.
-ccm