Each state has carefully crafted its concealed-carry laws in the way that makes the most sense to protect its citizens… Clearly, large, urban areas merit a different standard than rural areas. To gut the ability of local police and sheriffs to determine who should be able to carry a concealed weapon makes no sense. It could reverse the dramatic success we’ve had in reducing crime in most all parts of America. –SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER, 7/21/09 [More]
Except with more gun owners, more guns, and more widespread concealed carry, crime and violent crime is down, lower than it was then.
How much more evidence is needed that prohibitionists and Democrats (but I repeat myself) have been, are, and will be wrong on this I don’t know, as I’m not someone who would rule by emotions.
[Via CDT]
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Maybe it’s a New York/places that make it harder for good people to defend themselves kind of thing. Just got these headlines:
