(January 3, 2020 at 5:49 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Yep, crime rates have been consistently falling for some time. There's no relationship between that and concealed carry other than eroding the justification to carry in the first place. It is weird, though, that so many people imagine that the US is or will become some sort of battlefield. People who want to carry guns probably already are, license or not. The reliable comparisons to the wild west are even more perplexing. The west wasn't that wild, if empowered gun nutters are the metric. That period saw some of the strictest gun regulations in US history.It's like the guy standing on the corner in a small village in central Alaska, snapping his fingers. After he had stood there for eight straight hours a cop had to ask him what he was doing.
"Scaring away elephants."
"There not a single elephant within a hundred miles of here."
"See? It works!!"
