More Carry Permit Stuff
Per this:
Since the right-to-carry law was enacted in Florida . . . The homicide rate dropped 36 percent, firearm homicides dropped 37 percent and handgun homicides dropped 41 percent.
In the 10 states that adopted right-to-carry laws, the results were no change in the suicide rate, a 0.5 percent rise in accidental firearm deaths, a 5 percent decline in rapes, a 7 percent decline in aggravated assaults and an 8 percent decline in murder.
After Washington, D.C., enacted a handgun ban, the homicide rate rose 200 percent, while the overall U.S. rate only rose 12 percent. Of the 6.3 million violent crimes of rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated and simple assault, only 8 percent involved firearms.
U.S. Dept. of Justice’s Crime Victimization Survey has shown that resistance with a gun is by far the safest course of action when one is confronted by a criminal. The probability of serious injury from a criminal confrontation is 2.5 times greater for women offering no resistance than resisting with a gun.
August 11th, 2003 at 3:39 pm
There’s a superb catalog of books and videos on guns, concealed carry, and on pistol and rifle marksmanship, at http://www.survivalistskills.com/sect17.htm
There is also a substantial archive of fascinating and invaluable ‘New World Order Intelligence Update’ articles on the liberty-threatening New World Order at http://www.survivalistskills.com/sect22.htm and archived also at http://www.rarehistorybooks.com/NWOLINKS.HTM. The ‘NWOIU’ site itself is currently down for substantial re-construction, but these archived articles are well worth reading.