It’s amazing to me, after all the money spent on educating children (including adults who act like children) in America, that so many people have absolutely no understanding of the inverse relationship between gun ownership and crime in a society.
To put it plainly: the more legal gun ownership in a society, the less crime will be committed.
Why? It doesn’t take a genius to figure it out. If you are a criminal seeking to commit a crime, you’re less likely to actually go through with it if you think that there is a higher likelihood that you’ll be shot. Or you’ll look for a victim who is less likely to be able to fight back.
It’s a simple understanding of how bullies react when confronted. Many of us learned this in elementary school. Apparently, anti-gunners did not.
But if you’re a person who wants statistics to back up your thinking (which isn’t a bad idea), we have found some statistics about crime that should scare you to death, at least if you’re unarmed (hat tip to here and here for the lead). Shima Baughman, a professor of criminal law at the University of Utah, writes,
As Americans across the nation protest police violence, people have begun to call for cuts or changes in public spending on police. But neither these nor other proposed reforms address a key problem with solving crimes.
My recent review of 50 years of national crime data confirms that, as police report, they don’t solve most serious crimes in America. But the real statistics are worse than police data show. In the U.S. it’s rare that a crime report leads to police arresting a suspect who is then convicted of the crime.
The data show that consistently over the decades, fewer than half of serious crimes are reported to police. Few, if any arrests are made in those cases.
In reality, about 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction. Therefore, the number of people police hold accountable for crimes – what I call the “criminal accountability” rate – is very low.
Think about that. 89% of serious crimes never even see an arrest and 98% don’t end in a conviction. That means that, if a crime happens to you (or your spouse, or your child), there is nearly no chance that the person who commits that serious crime will ever be punished for it.
Now, let’s push the idea of punishment aside for a moment. If the punishment rate is that low, does that say anything about the ability of the victims of crime to be able to defend themselves? Those victims almost universally did not defend themselves, were unable to defend themselves.
Now, ask yourself if you want to be that defenseless victim or if you want your spouse or child to be that defenseless victim.
No, you don’t, and that’s one great reason that you need to carry concealed (and, yes, train to use it effectively) in order to protect not only yourself, but your spouse, your family, and innocent people. These statistics show that law enforcement cannot do it (frankly, if they aren’t on the scene when the crime happens, how could they?), but if you’re there, you can be the protector of the innocent.
Be that hero. Be the good guy (or gal) with a gun.
Simple fact is; the powers that be, especially now, much rather you remain unarmed and fearful. And will stop at nothing to make sure that happens!
I do agree about concealed carry, 100%! Now look at the flip-side: I have the know-how (I took the concealed carry test 3 times, all 3 times I “aced” it and never studied! In fact I was asked, almost begged to get my license, but I refused. Why? 1. I can’t afford to get the license and I have no printer. 2. I can’t afford a gun. 3. Above all, using common sense again: I am an epileptic.. 3 types of seizures all since early teens. Now seizures are pretty much but at a cost: I shake like one who has Parkinson’s. 4. Have I ever desired to have? More than you can guess, but, again common sense tells me I would be almost as dangerous as the attacker. I think I made a wise decision not to carry but the idea of the license ownership intrigues me all the time, but I can’t afford. THAT my friend, is my reply
I am a concealed carrier and I wouldn’t give up my license for the world.. I want to make sure that I and my family are safe when I go out anywhere.
The man I shot in 1990 first went to prison in1959 for armed robbery,he spent time in Ga. Fl .and Al. for same crime. Well in 1990 he came in to where I worked and put a .32 revolver in my face I gave him the money but when he told me to ge ton the floor I though of all the robbery’s in the area where the people gave the money but were shot by the robber. so when I went down to the floor I got my pistol and shot the man. Whell I cangive you my opion of the 1968 gun controle act an lack of enrorcment {but I do not think they will print these words)
So if you are not going to inforce laws on the books why make more?
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