Yukishiro1 posted:

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We would be better off if no one had guns (in terms of public safety, not getting into military or hunting use). I don't buy into the crap from the pro-gun lobby that guns are actually good for public safety.

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Tipztoe posted:

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as long as any type of gun exists anywhere as well as the black market, criminals will always have access.

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DemonicXH posted:

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There was a program started awhile back when Florida began allowing CCW permits. They wanted to find out the statistics of people with CCW permits committing murder as well as incidents of road rage shootings.


They ended up stopping the program after a few years because they had no cases to study. There were no incidents of people with CCW permits committing murder or any road rage shootings.


I been trying to find the link to it but I have been unsuccessful.

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Moe_Nox posted:

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"In counties that allow concealed weapons violent crime dropped an average of 3% per year after concealed weapons were allowed"

clicky

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paper posted:

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"crime tended to drop more in the nonadopting (concealed carry) states in

the 1990s than in adopting states"


"This puzzle was resolved when John Lott gave us the data that were

used for the response to our paper (recall that Lott was initially the lead author

of that response). We found that this dataset contained numerous coding errors,

which we describe below. Correcting these errors, which contaminated every

regression that was run for their response to our paper, had a profound effect on

their estimates and restored the conclusion that concealed-carry laws were

associated with increases in crime (or no effect) for all crime categories.


http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ayers/Ayres_Donohue_comment.pdf

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