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Just deserts. A woman in Milwaukee with a concealed carry permit shot a
teenaged hijacker, a hijacker who the day before shot a man in the jaw
during another hijacking attempt. The young thug is reported to be likely
paralyzed for life as result of the gunshot and consequently will be unable
to harm anyone else.
Read on.
In Milwaukee, a woman with a concealed carry permit shot a would be robber
who had been released after being accused of shooting a man in the face
during an attempted car-jacking the day before. The potentially impressive
criminal career has probably ended, as the suspect is now paralyzed and in
Police said a woman the 15-year-old tried to rob near 14th and Olive streets
the day after the Motley carjacking, pulled a gun on him.
Motley and his wife said the victim had a conceal carry permit and shot the
teen during a struggle.
The Crime Prevention Research Center has found that as the number of
concealed carry permits has risen, the crime rate has dropped.
Between 2007 and the preliminary estimates for 2013, murder rates have
fallen from 5.6 to 4.4 per 100,000 - a 22 percent drop in the murder rate at
the same time that the percentage of the adult population with permits
soared by 130 percent. Overall violent crime also fell by 22 percent over
that period of time.
This case may illustrate a microcosm of that trend. Most violent crimes
are committed by a tiny number of violent criminals that are members of
distinct, ultraviolent, urban, criminal, subcultures.
Consider that young criminal whose budding career has been terminated by a
concealed carry permit holder.
How many crimes would he likely have committed over the next 10, 20, or 30
years? A hundred? A thousand? Several thousand? All of those crimes
have now been prevented. And how many fellow criminals are now going to get
the word that armed robbery is not a smart career choice? Criminals fear
armed citizens as much as they fear police.
It is not hard to see how crime rates can be pushed down by more honest
people carrying guns, or to put it succinctly from John Lott's book: "More
Guns Less Crime".
John Lott writes that the people who benefit the most from the spread of
concealed carry permits are urban minority women. Professor Brian Anse
Patrick, in "Rise of the Anti-Media" notes that the percentage of women with
concealed carry permits is increasing faster than the percentage of men.
Stephanie Carter notes that in Texas, the fastest growing demographic of
concealed handgun permit holders is black women.
From "More Guns Less Crime", page 20:
"One additional woman carrying a concealed handgun reduces the murder rate
for women by about 3-4 times more than one additional man carrying a
concealed handgun reduces the murder rate for men."
It is not hard to see why "shall issue" concealed carry permit systems have
spread across the nation, and why the votes to bring about national
reciprocity for concealed carry permits exist in both the Senate and the
House of Representatives. Only the Senate Leadership of Harry Reid and the
Presidency of Barack Obama are preventing national reciprocity for concealed
carry permits, similar to national reciprocity for drivers licenses. No one
knows how many lives could be saved by such a measure.
By Epictetus
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