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New Texas A&M Study Says Concealed Carry Licenses Don't Reduce Crime
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Every legislative session Texas lawmakers fight to make access to guns less restrictive. In the past lawmakers would use state crime statistics to push gun legislation at the capitol.
But a new study published in the Journal of Criminology by researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health may be poking holes in claims that increasing the number of conceal handgun permits leads to less crime.
The study’s leading researcher Dr. Charles Phillips said past studies on the issue were limited to just a before and after snapshot on crime rates from a statewide perspective. |
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jac
(9/26/2015)
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This doesn't match the fact that violent crime has decreased in recent years at the same time that concealed carry licenses were exploding.
It sounds to me like a hoplophobic professor manipulated or cherry picked the data to support his liberal bias. |
| Comment by:
jac
(9/26/2015)
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See the following:
http://bearingarms.com/academic-study-asserts-concealed-carry-doesnt-affect-crime/ |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(9/26/2015)
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Any "professor" who undertakes this kind of "study" does it for one reason and one reason only - to misrepresent the facts to support his preconceived conclusions.
IOW, these "professors" are nothing but left-wing shills and propagandists, posturing under a faux mantle of "legitimacy". |
| Comment by:
Uncommon1
(9/28/2015)
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| In 1991, there were about 6-8 car jackings in Dallas per week. In 1995, Texas passed Concealed Carry. Car jackings dropped to almost zero. This is not a coincidence. Car jackers do not want to be shot. Period. |
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