Same as always
Six years after new rules made it much easier to get a license to carry concealed weapons, the number of Michiganders legally packing heat has increased more than six-fold.
But dire predictions about increased violence and bloodshed [repeated at length by the press – ed] have largely gone unfulfilled, according to law enforcement officials and, to the extent they can be measured, crime statistics.
The incidence of violent crime in Michigan in the six years since the law went into effect has been, on average, below the rate of the previous six years. The overall incidence of death from firearms, including suicide and accidents, also has declined.
January 7th, 2008 at 10:54 am
What’s disturbing is the fact that the evidence is plain to see, but the anti-crowd is still claiming that it’s dangerous to have the proletariat armed.