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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 631720" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>Myth: Concealed carry laws increase crime</p><p></p><p><strong>Fact</strong>: Thirty-nine states282, comprising the majority of the American population, are "right-to-carry" states. Statistics show that in these states the crime rate fell (or did not rise) after the right-to-carry law became active (as of July, 2006). Nine states restrict the right to carry and two deny it outright.</p><p></p><p><strong>Fact</strong>: Crime rates involving gun owners with carry permits have consistently been about 0.02% of all carry permit holders since Florida’s right-to-carry law started in 1988.283</p><p></p><p><strong>Fact</strong>: After passing their concealed carry law, Florida's homicide rate fell from 36% above the national average to 4% below, and remains below the national average (as of the last reporting period, 2005).284</p><p></p><p><strong>Fact</strong>: In Texas, murder rates fell 50% faster than the national average in the year after their concealed carry law passed. Rape rates fell 93% faster in the first year after<span style="font-size: 9px"> <span style="font-size: 10px">enactment, and 500% faster in the second.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">282</span>At publication time two more states, Kansas and Nebraska, have pass shall-issue legislation, but insufficient data was available to determine how the change has impacted crime rates.</p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">283</span> Florida Department of Justice, 1998</p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">284</span> Shall issue: the new wave of concealed handgun permit laws, Cramer C and Kopel D. Golden CO: Independence Institute Issue Paper. October 17, 1994</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 631720, member: 249"] Myth: Concealed carry laws increase crime [B]Fact[/B]: Thirty-nine states282, comprising the majority of the American population, are "right-to-carry" states. Statistics show that in these states the crime rate fell (or did not rise) after the right-to-carry law became active (as of July, 2006). Nine states restrict the right to carry and two deny it outright. [B]Fact[/B]: Crime rates involving gun owners with carry permits have consistently been about 0.02% of all carry permit holders since Florida’s right-to-carry law started in 1988.283 [B]Fact[/B]: After passing their concealed carry law, Florida's homicide rate fell from 36% above the national average to 4% below, and remains below the national average (as of the last reporting period, 2005).284 [B]Fact[/B]: In Texas, murder rates fell 50% faster than the national average in the year after their concealed carry law passed. Rape rates fell 93% faster in the first year after[SIZE=1] [SIZE=2]enactment, and 500% faster in the second.[/SIZE] 282[/SIZE]At publication time two more states, Kansas and Nebraska, have pass shall-issue legislation, but insufficient data was available to determine how the change has impacted crime rates. [SIZE=1]283[/SIZE] Florida Department of Justice, 1998 [SIZE=1]284[/SIZE] Shall issue: the new wave of concealed handgun permit laws, Cramer C and Kopel D. Golden CO: Independence Institute Issue Paper. October 17, 1994 [/QUOTE]
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