Concealed Carry Weapons Laws Lower Murder Rates - Granite Grok

Concealed Carry Weapons Laws Lower Murder Rates

gun control c/o John Hinderaker at Powerline.

Economist Mark Gius has a new study in the journal Applied Economics Letters that bears on the gun control debate. Gius finds that permissive concealed carry laws (generally, “shall issue”) result in a lower rate of homicide involving firearms. Conversely, state-level assault weapons bans have no statistically significant effect on the homicide rate involving guns.

And the critical point in the abstract…

Given that the average gun related murder rate over the period in question was 3.44, the results of the present study indicate that states with more restrictive CCW laws had gun-related murder rates that were 10% higher. In addition, the Federal assault weapons ban is significant and positive, indicating that murder rates were 19.3% higher when the Federal ban was in effect.

Rape declines by 5% as well, in areas with less restrictive concealed carry laws, according to the study–the risk of armed resistance lowers assaults on women, go figure?

So pro-rape Democrats proposing pro-rape gun restrictions (and meaningless background checks on scary rifles), should make sure they tell women that their proposed law comes with a 5% increase in sexually assaults and an increase gun violence.

In related news, Democrats passed a law where they said your would save money, could keep your plan and your doctor, but it turns out you wont and you can’t.

Have you noticed a pattern yet?

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