01-14-2006, 04:42 AM
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Like John Goodman, but not.
Location: SFBA, California
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http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/...un.rights.html
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Now, however, the author of a new book, More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, has analyzed crime rates in the 10 states that passed right-to-carry laws from 1977 to 1992. He contends that after more relaxed concealed-carry laws were enacted, murders fell an average of 8%, rapes 5% and aggravated assaults 7%. (For the same period in the entire country, the number of murders went up 24%, and rapes 71%. Assaults more than doubled.) The purported reason: would-be criminals were deterred from choosing victims who just might have a pistol tucked in their purse. Increases in accidental deaths by handguns--on the whole relatively rare--were barely noticeable, fewer than one death a year.
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Personally, I'd be a lot less apt to try to rob a cracked out drug dealer who I figure would be armed than I would my next-door neighbor. Unless my neighbor was armed.
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