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Gun Control & RKBA

melm00se

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1. The assertion

Reply to AndyS (Original post)

Sat Dec 11, 2021, 02:57 PM

Dec 2021

in that thread is valid as once someone uses a gun in a crime, they are now criminals.

However, ways of analyzing this are to:

1. Look at the crime rates of concealed carry permit holders This data is available from Texas as well as Florida.
2. Look at gun crimes that involve previously convicted felons. I am unsure if that information is collated or not or if this would require a broad research project looking at primary sources. The issue there is whether or not that information is properly collected and reported.

The latter is beyond the scope of most armchair researchers and the former carries 1) significant bias in that the level of background checks on CCP weed out criminals and 2) the population is relatively small when compared to the entirety of the US population so that will attract the "Yeah but..." crowd.

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