Upscale wrote:


"Mark & Juanita" wrote in message
A study of countries/states/cities with restrictive gun laws has shown
that crime gets worse in those places. Places with concealed carry and
less restrictive gun laws tend to have lower crime rates.

That's a pretty broad statement, how about a few stats to back it up? And
if it is true, I'd wonder how similar stats for Canada would correlate to
the US ones?


Several cites:
The following is a synopsis of the FBI report, if you don't like the source,
you can peruse the FBI report yourself.
http://www.nraila.org/legislation/read.aspx?id=4181 Key summary:
"Right-to-Carry states had lower violent crime rates, on average, compared
to the rest of the country with total violent crime lower by 24 percent,
murder by 28 percent, robbery by 50 percent, and aggravated assault by 11
percent. "

Effect of gun laws in England and the idea that people should not protect
themselves or others, they should rely upon society to protect them:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/28582.html




Even though every shooting in Toronto, Canada gets great press, the
statistics released by the police definitely show that the crime rate is
going down every year. It only sounds worse because of the sensation of
crimes done by the press.

2006 piece citing some Canadian information
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/lemieux1.html


Those were few that were found in a few minutes of looking


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