The anti-gun Violence Policy Center (VPC) released a study recently with an eye-popping claim: Concealed-carry-permit holders have killed 1,335 people since 2007. “Too many concealed-carry permit holders are a direct threat to public safety,” warns the VPC. Purporting to review “non-self-defense incidents” involving firearms, the VPC says its research proves that “allowing random people to carry guns endangers public safety.” We’re shocked — shocked — to report that this is fake news.
First of all, there are roughly 18 million permit holders now — three times as many as when the VPC started tracking this data in 2007. A crime wave among them would be big news, but instead concealed-carry-permit holders are, as a group, more law-abiding than police officers. They are model citizens, not “random people” apt to commit crime.
That’s true for a couple of reasons. Permit holders in many states undergo training before receiving their permits, and every state that issues permits requires a bear minimum of a background check first. People who submit to such requirements are almost by definition more law-abiding than those who don’t — at least compared to other “random people” carrying guns without permits.
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3 comments:
I have a concealed carry permit in Maryland..(I know...hard to get!) And have not killed anyone..nor have my various firearms escaped from their safe and killed anyone.. gotta love the way the lefties say "guns kill people", like they run around on their own...idiots.
lol.
They are NOT "random" by any means or measure.
They are the ones who kneeled and kissed the ace of the Gestapo to be able to exercise the rights "We, the people" already had in our possession. ALREADY HAD.
They believed that people unknown to them get to tell them which one of their rights THEY will LET you use.
I use ALL of my rights and have NEVER asked another man if it was okay with them, nor have I given them fingerprints, money, or fees, and I would NEVER sit down for an "interview" DESIGNED to find a reason to say "No". Some of THEM shouldn't even be allowed to carry a squirt gun, but THEY get to tell "we, the people" which parts of the Constitution THET believe are valid??? They forget who they SERVE.
If they don't like it, they can knock on my door at 4AM.
I got a feeling they won't.
Very well spoken 221, I agree will every word
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