Liberals have claimed that increased gun ownership leads to more violent crime. To make that claim, they have to ignore the numbers. I remember when the city of Kennesaw, Georgia passed an ordinance, requiring every household to own a gun, with a few exceptions.
This was done to combat a huge increase in crime. Liberals said that Kennesaw would become the wild west with gunfights on the streets. Today, the city has grown fourfold and you have to pay a large premium for buying a house there as their schools are excellent and the crime rate ridiculously low. Family Circle Magazine even awarded them with being one of the best cities to live in.
Then, a few years ago as states started passing “constitutional carry” laws that crime would continue to grow at a rapid rate. It didn’t. The crime rates, especially murder with handguns has dropped dramatically. Twelve states now have that law on it’s books.
Those states are Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Vermont.
“And FBI crime stats for Alaska, Arizona, and Wyoming — three states that abolished their permit requirements years ago — show that murders with handguns decreased once the permit requirement was eradicated.”
Other states on the list are more recent adopters of constitutional carry, so gathering enough data to chart the results will take more time. Still, the numbers are looking good: The year Mississippi enacted permitless carry in 2015, for example, there were 253 murders. In 2016, it went down 238.
This may not be a huge drop, but it shows that constitutional carry of firearms doesn’t trigger mass violence.
Gun ownership and concealed carry has exploded since the 1990s and during that time, the crime rate has been dropping like a rock.