C_Clayton_Jones
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- Apr 28, 2011
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2AGUY SAID:
“...as more Americans own and carry guns our violent crime rate and our gun murder rate went down...”
Wrong.
This fails as a confusion of correlation and causation fallacy – there is no objective, documented evidence that the carrying of concealed firearms contributed to recent decreases in crimes:
'"There's no firm, solid evidence that the growth in concealed weapons permits has contributed to a drop in crime rates," said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston.
Among the reasons most criminologists think crime is dropping, he said, are better policing strategies, an end to the crack cocaine epidemic and high rates of incarceration. Even the fact that more Americans have cameras in their phones, and are able to capture crime as it happens, may have contributed.
Fox notes that crime rates have dropped even in states like Massachusetts, which have very restrictive gun laws.'
Fact Check: Do concealed weapons lower crime rates? :: WRAL.com
Americans are not required to 'justify' the exercising of a Constitutional right as a 'prerequisite' to indeed do so – this is a mistake the OP makes time and again, in thread after failed, moronic thread.
“...as more Americans own and carry guns our violent crime rate and our gun murder rate went down...”
Wrong.
This fails as a confusion of correlation and causation fallacy – there is no objective, documented evidence that the carrying of concealed firearms contributed to recent decreases in crimes:
'"There's no firm, solid evidence that the growth in concealed weapons permits has contributed to a drop in crime rates," said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston.
Among the reasons most criminologists think crime is dropping, he said, are better policing strategies, an end to the crack cocaine epidemic and high rates of incarceration. Even the fact that more Americans have cameras in their phones, and are able to capture crime as it happens, may have contributed.
Fox notes that crime rates have dropped even in states like Massachusetts, which have very restrictive gun laws.'
Fact Check: Do concealed weapons lower crime rates? :: WRAL.com
Americans are not required to 'justify' the exercising of a Constitutional right as a 'prerequisite' to indeed do so – this is a mistake the OP makes time and again, in thread after failed, moronic thread.