Data Disproves Left’s Fear Of Adhering
To The Constitution On Guns
The Federalist,
by
John R. Lott Jr.
Original Article
Posted By: PeterWolosin,
11/9/2021 8:09:48 AM
This year has seen the largest increase ever in the number of concealed handgun permit holders—more than two million, for a total of 21.52 million. That is a 48 percent increase since 2016. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case of NYSRPA v. Bruen, which has a chance to further increase this total and make permitting rules more similar across states.
Six states now have more than 1 million permit holders: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Florida is the first state to have more than 2.5 million permits.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 11/9/2021 10:10:36 AM (No. 972183)
Justice Breyer’s comments are a classic case of projection, a psychological malady common among liberals. Breyer thinks otherwise sane, normal people will go to football games, get drunk, and pull their guns out and start shooting because.... that’s what he’s afraid HE would do!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 11/9/2021 11:01:26 AM (No. 972250)
John Lott has been researching this topic for decades, has become quite an expert on the numbers. I had an opportunity to spend a few hours discussing his book "More Guns, Less Crime" not long after it came out, one on one. He's an interesting, low key, very intelligent man, who didn't start out caring or knowing much about guns, was not a gun owner. He assigned grad students in an economics class to investigate a gun control topic mathematically, statistically just one of many topics he assigned as training for research. He was so viciously attacked for his student's research results that he was genuinely surprised and thought that anything which provoked such vicious personal attacks and hate, not attacks on methodology, was worth looking into some more.
He's always worth reading when you run across his byline.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bpl40 11/9/2021 12:05:37 PM (No. 972326)
Charging $400 where a neighboring state charges $12.95 is exactly what is meant by "shall not be infringed ".
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 11/9/2021 12:40:44 PM (No. 972375)
#3, I was surprised about that, too. I think that is worth a federal civil rights lawsuit, too.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 11/9/2021 12:42:14 PM (No. 972376)
Oops, hit return too soon.
How is a high dollar cost to exercise one of our specific constitutional rights legal? Poll taxes were used to keep the poor from voting and were found to be unconstitutional. How is that high cost of a CCW permit any different?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mc squared 11/9/2021 12:44:21 PM (No. 972379)
we choose truth over facts
Joe Biden - campaigning in Iowa 2019 .
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hazymac 11/9/2021 1:34:50 PM (No. 972432)
Although I cannot speak for other states' policies on where guns are legal--or not legal--to carry, Justice Breyer's point is moot in Florida--and the second time he says it, it's silly-- because even legal permit holders cannot carry a gun into any sporting event or convention with a paid gate (the only exception is a gun show). At every Tampa Bay Rays game I've ever attended, every person with a ticket had to pass through a metal detector. At entrances no gun is allowed to pass through. Only the police are armed at sporting events. That's probably a wise policy. Permit holders must leave theirs at home or hidden in the truck.
Lott is considered one of the few true authorities on gun related issues. Two of his books are in my library.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MickTurn 11/9/2021 2:02:23 PM (No. 972468)
Justice Breyer is the typical Communist in a black robe...His rulings are all Marxist and he plays the 'smart guy' when in fact he's nothing but a Zealot for his Marxist Cause!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
zoidberg 11/9/2021 2:07:01 PM (No. 972472)
I live in Maryland, which in theory is a "may issue" state, but in reality is a "won't issue" state.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 11/10/2021 1:49:29 AM (No. 972929)
Re #9, somebody is getting permits in Maryland. According to an online site, Maryland has over 27,000 active CCW permits.
https://www.gunstocarry.com/concealed-carry-statistics/#numbers
Probably payoffs to various judges, sheriffs, etc. by wealthy folks to get permits approved that 'Joe average citizen' isn't going to get or afford. Last I read, you handed $10K to the 'proper' law firm in NYC and you could get a concealed weapons carry permit. The law firm greased the right palms and made it happen.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 11/10/2021 2:10:53 AM (No. 972936)
When Kansas was working on getting our first CCW permit system approved, the anti-gun crowds made these same lame claims. "People will be shooting each other over parking spaces." "Any minor issue will end up in gunfire." When I asked lawmakers to ask if they thought that Kansans were more violent than people in the 25 other states that had shall issue for many years, some said, "Well, you never can tell". We had dual sponsors of the bill, a senior female Democrat legislator and a senior female Republican legislator. I became friends with both of them over the period of developing, writing and passing the bill.
While waiting to testify before a legislative subcommittee, I sat down in the waiting area with a Kansas state trooper in full uniform. I asked if he would be testifying, and we discussed the situation. He had been assigned by the head of the KS Highway Patrol to 'check into how this concealed carry laws have worked out in other states'. The trooper told me that he had contacted the Highway Patrol heads in Florida and several other states and each had unequivocally stated "It was no problem at all, you will find that there are no problems with legal concealed carry permit holders." He reported that, and this was a significant factor, I believe, in getting the law passed in the legislature. And the legislature had to override the veto of a rotten Democrat governor at that time, Kathleen Sebelius, who went on to be a rotten Obama stooge in DC, too.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack 11/10/2021 10:34:34 AM (No. 973295)
If you are a confirmed Marxist wanting to destroy Western civilization you want (among many other things) to disarm your enemy to eliminate any resistance. Even taking away one gun or one bullet is a win for the Marxists.
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