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Originally Posted by scardog
Yes.
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/crime/pdcrm/pdcrm20.htm
States with right-to-carry laws have lower overall violent crime rates, compared to states without right-to-carry laws. In states whose laws respect the citizen's right-to-carry guns for self defense the total violent crime is 13% lower, homicide is 3% lower, robbery is 26% lower and aggravated assault is 7% lower. (Data: Crime in the United States 1996, FBI Uniform Crime Reports) |
Fair enough. But, that study is unpublished, it does not explain how it arrived at it's conclusions, and it does not (or at least it does not state that is does) account for population growth. They are seeming to compare samples from a decade ago versus three decades ago. Not to mention that this is from 1996, so over a decade ago. Seriously, this is neither credible nor is it recent.