Opponents of America’s Second Amendment rights, as well as those who would love to see those rights severely curtailed, generally have a great appeal to their audiences’ emotions, especially after some tragic mass-killing or well-reported homicide.
For example, as the nation was recovering from its shock when Congressman Steve Scalise and others were shot by a Bernie-loving lunatic named James Hodgkinson, many pointed out that Hodgkinson had By DK | AllenWest.com
a valid firearms license, and therefore was within his rights to bring a gun to what was to be his killing field up until the moment he began firing it.
Unfortunately for these critics, as John Adams once said, “facts are stubborn things.”
As Breitbart reports, a new study has concluded that gun owners with permits on the whole pose little danger to those around them. Perhaps they respect their second amendment right.
A Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) study shows that concealed carry permit holders are among the most law-abiding of law-abiding citizens in the country.
For example, for 2016 the study shows that just .0092 percent of Louisiana permit holders were charged with a felony in 2016. And in 2015 there “were 25,208 violent crimes in Louisiana, with 19 felony charges or convictions against permit holders.” Assuming the felonies were violent and the charges against permit holders stand, this still means permit holders only represent .08 percent of those who committed violent crimes.
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