(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. Mere possession of a firearm in a restricted or prohibited area could and would end in summary execution.But with falling crime rates you find it necessary to restrict legal ownership of weapons - especially "assault weapons" - which are simply semi-auto rifles - which are the least used class of gun in crimes.
Why?
