The Sandy Hook massacre has led to calls for more restrictions on guns. There is a counter argument being made that more, not less, guns should be out in the public. The pro gun side contends that while Connecticut has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, they did not prevent what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary. And of course one only need read the news to know that the places, like Chicago, the District of Columbia, New York City etc. also have extremely restrictive gun laws and they have the highest violent crime rate. We find it ironic that more people have been killed with illegal guns in Chicago in the last three months than were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary and the Elite media pays no attention to the failure of restrictive gun laws. They simply do not work.
The corollary to this is the issue of whether making guns more readily available in the public would cause more gun violence. Seldom does one read a story about crimes being committed by people with concealed carry permits, certainly much less frequently than we read about illegal guns being used in violent crimes in Chicago, about licensed concealed gun holders committing violent gun crimes. In fact, the holders of CCL (concealed carry licenses) permits commit much less crime than other segments of the population or the population in general.
A recent study in Texas backs up this conclusion: Concealed carry permit holders do not use guns to commit crimes and they commit crimes of any nature much less frequently than the general population of Texas.
The Texas Department of Public Safety published a list of crimes committed in Texas in 2011 by everyone convicted and by those convicted who also held CCL’s. The bottom line: Concealed carry permit holders commit less than 1% of the crimes. If you want to be exact, they committed two tenths of one percent of the crimes in 2011. And not all of those involved firearms or violence.
The data show that 63,679 people were convicted of a long list of crimes. Of those 63 thousand, only 120 were CCL holders.
This study is a few years old but the information is just as valid.
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