Josh was probably sitting around feeling bad getting those checks from Joyce and not producing much. And Kristen wasn’t busy. Cant imagine she ever is. So, they Googled themselves up another study. This one is called CCW Killers and it looks to paint those with carry permits in a bad light. Like most of their supposed studies, it’s a bit lacking. First, it’s based on Google searches. A few of the folks they list haven’t actually been convicted. And in a few instances, the crimes occur in a home, where a carry permit doesn’t matter. Even with all the stretches, if you stretch a bit more it’s a whopping 0.4% I did my math a bit differently. Because you would need data for the whole period covered, not just the current year. And that would be about two years and eight months. Two year data would be about 19,500 and you could swag the eight month stub to about 6,500. So, 85/26K is 0.32692308%.

Yup. Folks with carry permits are involved in an underwhelming amount of gun deaths.

Sebastian has more and notes the lying.

Update: More math from Joe:

So, the average CCW holder is (5.4/100,000)/(1/142,000) or 7.668 times less likely to murder someone than your average private citizen. And that’s not correcting for the exaggerations pointed out by Sebastian and the conservative numbers used by Waldron (it’s actually 34/5,000,000+ or 1/147,059+). So the real number is probably on the order of 10 times less likely.

Posted in uncategorized on November 18th, 2009 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |