Thread: Supreme Court finds individual right to own guns

This website:

http://stason.org/TULARC/society/pro-guns/3-8-Permitting-people-to-carry-concealed-weapons-will-lead.html

Carries the following ‘headline.’

This article is from the talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ, by Ken Barnes ([email protected]) with numerous contributions by others.
3.8 "Permitting people to carry concealed weapons will lead to increased violent crime, and people killing each other at the slightest provocation."

It also contains the following paragraph.

“Of the 204,108 licenses issued in the Florida law's
first 6 1/2 years of operation, seventeen (17, or .008%) were
revoked for unlawful conduct while the firearm was present, and many
of these violations were either technical (such as carrying into a
restricted area, like an airport or bar) or non-gun related (such
as revoking a permit due to a drunken driving arrest). In Oregon,
over 60,000 concealed carry permits have been issued, and none has
been revoked.”


Concealed Carry Permit holders do NOT present a problem to Society!
This website carries some VERY interesting facts.

http://www.gunowners.org/fs0101.htm

Like THIS:

“* Concealed carry laws are dropping crime rates across the country. A comprehensive national study determined in 1996 that violent crime fell after states made it legal to carry concealed firearms. The results of the study showed:
* States which passed concealed carry laws reduced their murder rate by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%…”