Concealed carry restrictions increase violent crime....new study...

[2aguy]

this is what has been found since the states started permitting people to carry guns for self defense...not that they should be allowed to stop people since it is in the Bill of Rights...but each time a state went to permit open or concealed carry we would get the same myth...more people with guns would mean more violence...any traffic altercation would turn into murder...and none of it happened...gun crime rates went down, not up...

Study Assault Weapon And CCW Restrictions Associated With Higher Murder Rates The Daily Caller

In a new study, Mark Gius, of Quinnipiac University’s Department of Economics, has found that between 1980 and 2009, “states with more restrictive CCW laws had gun-related murder rates that were 10% higher” than those of other states. Gius also concluded that state “murder rates were 19.3% higher when the Federal [‘assault weapon’ and ‘large’ magazine] ban was in effect.” Gius says that more research is needed to determine whether these gun control laws contributed to, or merely coincided with, higher rates of crime.

Nationally, murder rates have certainly been lower since the federal gun and magazine bans were in effect. The bans went into effect in September 1994 and expired in September 2004. During the 10 years 1995-2004, the average annual murder rate was 6.2 per 100,000 population. From 2005 to 2012, however, the average rate has been 16 percent lower, at 5.2 per 100,000.

Murder rates have also decreased as the number of Right-to-Carry (RTC) states have increased. From 1987, when Florida adopted its trend-setting Right-to-Carry law, through 2012, the share of the American population living in RTC states rose from 16 percent to 70 percent, and the nation’s murder rate decreased 43 percent.

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