Women Avoids Abduction With Loaded Handgun - Granite Grok

Women Avoids Abduction With Loaded Handgun

woman pointing gunIn 2004 Ohio began issuing Concealed Carry permits.  In 2012 they issued 76,810 permits.  In 2013 that number rose to 145,342 (which includes renewals). Then there’s this story...

An Ohio woman who is licensed to carry a gun but had only recently started carrying one for protection put it to good use earlier this week.

“Two gentlemen came out of the woods, one holding a baseball bat, and said ‘You’re coming with us,’” Burns told WBNS, adding that Gracie was little help in deterring the men.

“I said, ‘Well, what do you want?,’ and as I was saying that I reached in to my pocket and slipped my gun out, slipped the safety off as I pulled it out,” Burns said.

“As I was doing that the other gentleman came toward me and raised the baseball bat. And, I pointed the gun at them and said, ‘I have this and I’m not afraid to use it.’”

The men backed off and left, Burns told the news station.

If Democrats had their way this would be the story of a missing person, a woman who went out to walk her dog and never came back.  Ask a Democrat if they care?

You know what they do care about?  Concealed Carry has gotten very popular in Ohio, and they hate that.

Columbus Dispatch

Ohio’s concealed-handgun law allows those who have completed firearms-safety training to apply for a license through a sheriff’s office. The attorney general compiles the information quarterly and submits an annual report by March 1 to the governor and legislative leaders.

Since permits were first issued, more than 570,000 people have received new permits or renewed existing ones.

In the past five years, state records show, 220,804 new licenses were issued and 94,910 were renewed.

Much to the dismay of the “anti-gun violence” left, the increase in permit holders is having a broad effect on real violence.  As the number of Ohioans who have embraced the idea of self-defense rises, crime has declined.

ohio crime stats

 

The boxed red numbers are the high water mark for that crime rate in this table.  Where that percentage difference was measurable I have added a second percent change from that peak number as well as the difference from 2006.  If the difference from 2006 was negligible there is only one percentage for both.

All the highlighted numbers in yellow are 2006 minus 2012 with the exception of burglary, which has only dropped 0.5% since 2006, but has dropped 8.4% since its peak in 2011 (so I emphasized that in red).

The exponential increase in permits could be a result of that rise, as could the decline in burglaries since given the dramatic increase in permits issued in 2012 and now 2013.

Whatever the thinking, adding half a million concealed carry gun owners in Ohio since 2004 has NOT resulted in more crime,  more violent crime, or more gun violence.  There is less crime, fewer rapes, fewer of everything, and at least one less abduction.

The irrational anti-gun flat-earth Democrats will deny it.   They have to.  But then, these are the same people who think global warming makes it colder, and that the sole biological purpose of sexual intercourse does not create a person until they say it does.

Remember, if Democrats had their way this would be a very real story about a very real woman who went out to walk her dog and was either found beaten, raped, dead, all of the above, or not found at all.   That’s the real world.

She is alive because Democrats didn’t get what they want.

Put that on a T-Shirt.

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