Brain357
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Actual research shows....
A study by Crime Prevention Research Center, a gun-carrying advocacy site, looked at permit data from 2007-2013. It showed for each 1 percentage point increase in the adult population holding permits there is roughly associated with a 1.4 percent drop in the murder rate.
Peter Scharf, a Criminologist at Louisiana State University School of Public Health says those numbers are misleading. Over the past 40 years Scharf has published eight books on criminal justice and research into gun violence and he says communities with a high number of citizens carrying permits are typically areas where the crime rate is relatively low.
And the real world shows violent crime went up.
brain....violent crime is down in the U.S...not up...and more Americans own guns now than ever before....and our drop was bigger than Australias..and we didn't ban guns......
Yes gun ownership and concealed carry doesn't effect crime rates. Most evidence points to ownership down btw.