Concealed Carry Stats
Some data regarding the concealed carry issue
Oklahoma Statistics for 2010
Average age for both women and men - 50 years old
25% of licensees were women
75% of licensees were men
27,013 applications approved statewide
1,203 applications denied
30 licenses revoked
55 licenses suspended
US Statistics
For the year 2010 there existed 4o Right-to-Carry states in the U.S.
37 of those states are "shall issue", meaning that the regulating authority cannot make arbitrary decisions on who can and who cannot carry. If an applicant meets the requirements, they must be allowed the right-to-carry permit.
These states "may issue". They can decide for whatever reason to issue or not to issue a permit. (Highly susceptible to corruption.)
California
New York
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New Jersey
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Alabama
Three U.S. states allow "Constitutional Carry", meaning no permit is required as long as there are no conflicting federal law issues. (i.e. convicted felon). Those states are Vermont, Arizona, and Alaska.
The right to carry concealed is denied in Illinois and Washington, D.C.
Wisconsin passed concealed carry legislation this year and it should take effect sometime around November 1, 2011. Until around that time, concealed carry is not permitted.
In these states, the permit holder must be a resident of the state which issued the license.
Colorado
Florida
South Carolina
Michigan
Maine
New Hampshire
Does Concealed Carry Actually Reduce Crime?
According to the Lott/Mustard study which included analyzing statistics in every county in every state, in the U.S... when the state's concealed carry laws were passed and put into place, violent crime rates decreased. Murder decreased by 8.5 percent and rapes and aggravated assaults decreased by 5 and 7 percent.
Risk of Injury While Carrying
Criminologist, Prof. Gary Kleck, concluded from his analysis of National Crime Victimization Survey data that robbery and assault victims who used a gun to resist were less likely to be attacked or to suffer an injury than those who used any other methods of self-protection or those who did not resist at all.
How Often Are Guns Actually Used?
Kleck and Mark Gertz found that guns were used for self-protection about 2.5 million times per year. The late Marvin E. Wolfgang, self-described as "as strong a gun-control advocate as can be found among the criminologists in this country" said, "The methodological soundness of the current Kleck and Gertz study is clear. I cannot further debate it...I cannot fault their methodology."
Turning the tables on the bad guys
A study for the Justice Department found 34 percent of felons had been "scared off, shot at, wounded, or captured by an armed victim," and 40 percent had not committed crimes, fearing victims were armed.
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