Michigan sees fewer gun deaths -- with more permits
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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080106/NEWS06/801060602/1008
Echoes of the same stories after Florida, Texas, and probably every other state that had enacted right to carry laws. Throw this at your favorite anti-gunner and watch them squirm.
Story at:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080106/NEWS06/801060602/1008
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.
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But dire predictions about increased violence and bloodshed 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.
Echoes of the same stories after Florida, Texas, and probably every other state that had enacted right to carry laws. Throw this at your favorite anti-gunner and watch them squirm.