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Monday, December 29, 2014

Reason's Gillespie: Crime Rate Drops as Gun Permits Rise

By Rick Pearcey • December 29, 2014, 09:07 AM

Greg Richter writes Newsmax:

Despite efforts from the left to restrict gun ownership on claims that it will reduce crime, the opposite is actually true, says Reason.com editor Nick Gillespie.

In a Sunday blog post, Gillespie points out that crime rates drop in states that enact laws allowing more people to carry concealed weapons, and they drop even further as more residents of those states avail themselves of their right.
In 1987, Gillespie notes, the total crime rate was 5,550 per 100,000 people while the violent crime rate was 610 per 100,000. By 2013, those figures had dropped to 3,099 and 368.

"A study by the Crme Prevention Research Center [CPRC] earlier this year found that 11.1 million Americans have concealed carry permits, up from 4.5 million in 2007. During that period, murder and violent crime rates dropped 22 percent," Richter reports.

"When you allow people to carry concealed handguns, you see changes in the behavior of criminals," CPRC president John R. Lott is quoted as telling Fox News. 
 
"Some criminals stop committing crimes, others move on to crimes in which they don’t come into contact with victims, and others actually move to areas where they have less fear of being confronted by armed victimsm," Lott told Fox, according to Richter.