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Anti-Gun Predictions Fail.

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Improvements are coming with Ohio’s concealed carry law. “In a bipartisan vote Tuesday, the Policy and Legislative Oversight Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives voted to send House Bill 203 to the full House.”
Source: http://www.chillicothegazette.com/article/20131123/OPINION04/311230017/Predictions-by-anti-gun-crowd-rarely-come-true.

Yet Every time we want to pass a pro-gun law, some anti-gun whines that our streets will be painted with blood, that it’s going to be the Wild West (which ironically, wasn’t even that wild). As Mike McCoy writes, it just doesn’t happen:

“When concealed carry was first being considered in Ohio more than 10 years ago, the anti-gun crowd predicted Ohio would become the Wild West. Needless to say, that didn’t happen. When changes were made to how guns could be carried in vehicles, the anti-gun crowd predicted concealed carry licensees would begin shooting police officers during traffic stops. Obviously, that didn’t happen either

 

More recently, when legislation was passed that allowed concealed carry in establishments that serve alcohol, the nearly hysterical anti-gun crowd shouted “guns and alcohol don’t mix” and predicted there would be shootouts in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. That didn’t happen either, because law-abiding citizens follow the law and don’t drink when they are carrying their guns.

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So what are the facts? The fact is gun ownership is at an all-time high and violent crime is at a 35-year low. The fact is concealed carry laws have expanded to all 50 states and murder has fallen to a 45-year low. The fact is the centerpiece of the anti-gun crowd’s gun control agenda, the federal handgun waiting period, expired in 1998 and the murder rate has decreased 21 percent since.

 

Finally, although the assault weapons ban expired in 2004 and ownership of “assault weapons” has exploded since then, the murder rate has dropped 10 percent. In short, the truth is more guns mean a safer country. The truth is more and better concealed carry laws mean less violent crime.

 

Source: Idem

The Mild West.

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Liberals use the “wild west” argument every time we want to pass a pro-gun law, and let’s face it, westerns would not be popular without a the shootouts and the violence. But fiction is fiction and facts are facts, and according to Hollon’s, Frontier Violence: Another Look, the wild west was pretty mild.

  • In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and
    Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides.  This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year.
  • In
    Abilene, supposedly one of the wildest of the cow towns, not a single person was killed in 1869 or 1870.

Zooming forward over a century to 2007, a quick look at Uniform Crime Report statistics shows us the following regarding the aforementioned gun control “paradise” cities of the east:

  • DC – 183 Murders (31 per 100,000 residents)
  • New York – 494 Murders (6 per 100,000 residents)
  • Baltimore – 281 Murders (45 per 100,000 residents)
  • Newark – 104 Murders (37 per 100,000 residents)

Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/dispelling-the-myth-of-the-wild-west