A poll by( the) Pew( Research Center) helps to explain why there has been such a large increase in concealed handgun permits among blacks and women. The poll shows a 25 percentage point increase in the proportion of blacks with a favorable view of gun ownership. This is the largest increase of any group.

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The states that we have seen a slowing of permits have primarily been these Constitutional Carry states where a permit is no longer required, indeed some of those states have even seen a drop in the number of permits even though the number of people carrying in those places has undoubtedly gone up.

We are all looking for magic bullets to stop crime, but it creates real problems, it prevents 20-year-old women who were stalked from having guns for protection.

What is so frustrating is that they don’t want to consider doing something that would work, like dealing with the fact that 98 percent of the mass public shootings keep on occurring in places where we ban general citizens from defending themselves, these killers keep saying that they pick places where people don’t have guns to protect themselves.

News stories tend to not mention the race of the officer when the officer is black, because most of the black officers we found we found by looking at department photos, not news stories, that was not true of white officers.

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You might have imagined that if people were shooting black suspects for some type of racial animus, you might imagine there would be a change before and after Ferguson.

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It was a big mistake. by John Lott

It was a big mistake.

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It raised total accidental deaths to 586 when they should have been 486, the lowest number on record despite the explosion in gun sales and concealed carry permits.

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This case illustrates how extreme the District of Columbia’s opposition to concealed carry has been, here you have law enforcement who are offering to protect others for free, and the District has borne large legal costs to stop them from doing it.

It’s possible criminals just realized that it was easier to commit crimes on the subways than they had previously realized, you may simply have a copycat effect.

Even just a few people or even a couple who might be armed at a school can make a big difference in terms of whether or not terrorist types attack there, it is amazing how these killers talk explicitly about picking targets where they know victims cannot go and defend themselves. … where people are not armed and not able to stop them.

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Just look at the illegal download of television shows and movies, millions of copies have been downloaded and the government has been unable to stop it. Why would the government be successful in stopping other information like these files from being downloaded?

The government does not know how to even begin to deal with these problems, i understand what government wants to regulate this, but it is too late. Technology moves faster than government.

3-D printers mean an end to any gun control. by John Lott

3-D printers mean an end to any gun control.

Of the 15 speakers at the workshop to train journalists, 13 are g... by John Lott

Of the 15 speakers at the workshop to train journalists, 13 are gun control advocates.

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The FBI put out a clearly incorrect set of numbers on public shootings shortly before the November election last year.

The problem is the people who need guns the most and benefit the most from owning gun, poor individuals in high crime areas, are priced out of the market, who do they think they are disarming as a result of the law ? It is minorities in poor crime areas, not some wealthy guy who can afford to purchase the firearms at a higher cost.