There are 466 violent crimes for every 100,000 people in the United States. Only about 108 of these will be gun related. Believe it or not, every single mass shooting that has happened in America since the 1950s, have all been in a place where guns were prohibited. Open carry is the practice of openly carrying a firearm on one's person in public (“Gun Control Myths and Realities”).
One in three Americans own a gun. States that allow open carry have, on average, a twenty three percent lower crime rate than those who do not. Between May 2007, and March 2014, at least fourteen law enforcement officers, and 622 other people were killed nationally by private individuals legally allowed to open carry handguns (“Gun Control Myths and Realities”). …show more content…
According to researchers, the crime rates in states that allow open carry are 23% lower than states that have outlawed it (“Gun Control Myths and Reality”). In 2011, 467,321 people were victims of crimes committed with firearms, compared to a whopping 1.6 million in 1994. That is a forty nine percent decrease in seventeen years. In 2012, researchers checked eight states without open carry, and proved they had 466 crimes per year per 100,000 people, as opposed to 789 per 100,000 to non-open carry states (“Right-to-carry Gun Laws Linked to Increase in Violent Crime, Stanford Research Shows”). In the 36 states that allow open carry, the violent crimes were twenty three percent lower, the murder rate was five percent lower, the aggravated assault rate was twenty three percent lower, and robbery rates were thirty six percent lower. Researcher Gary Kleck found that 92 percent of criminal attacks are deterred when a gun is merely shown (or, rarely, a warning shot fired). By inference, this means that open carry would have the effect of deterring crime in the same way that a thief might choose another restaurant when he sees police eating at his intended target. (“Do Concealed Weapon Laws Result in Less …show more content…
People with concealed carry are five and a half times less likely to be arrested for violent offences. After passing the concealed law, Florida’s homicide rate went down from thirty six percent above the national average, to four percent below the national average. That’s a forty two percent drop. The nine states with the lowest crime rates, are all open carry. Awareness of an armed citizenry has been shown to lower crime. In 1982, Atlanta suburb Kennesaw required all households to have a gun. The residential burglary rate subsequently dropped 89 percent in Kennesaw, compared to the modest 10.4 percent drop in Georgia as a whole. Ten years later the residential burglary rate in Kennesaw was still 72 percent lower than when the ordinance was passed (“Right-to-carry Gun Laws Linked to Increase in Violent Crime, Stanford Research
One in three Americans own a gun. States that allow open carry have, on average, a twenty three percent lower crime rate than those who do not. Between May 2007, and March 2014, at least fourteen law enforcement officers, and 622 other people were killed nationally by private individuals legally allowed to open carry handguns (“Gun Control Myths and Realities”). …show more content…
According to researchers, the crime rates in states that allow open carry are 23% lower than states that have outlawed it (“Gun Control Myths and Reality”). In 2011, 467,321 people were victims of crimes committed with firearms, compared to a whopping 1.6 million in 1994. That is a forty nine percent decrease in seventeen years. In 2012, researchers checked eight states without open carry, and proved they had 466 crimes per year per 100,000 people, as opposed to 789 per 100,000 to non-open carry states (“Right-to-carry Gun Laws Linked to Increase in Violent Crime, Stanford Research Shows”). In the 36 states that allow open carry, the violent crimes were twenty three percent lower, the murder rate was five percent lower, the aggravated assault rate was twenty three percent lower, and robbery rates were thirty six percent lower. Researcher Gary Kleck found that 92 percent of criminal attacks are deterred when a gun is merely shown (or, rarely, a warning shot fired). By inference, this means that open carry would have the effect of deterring crime in the same way that a thief might choose another restaurant when he sees police eating at his intended target. (“Do Concealed Weapon Laws Result in Less …show more content…
People with concealed carry are five and a half times less likely to be arrested for violent offences. After passing the concealed law, Florida’s homicide rate went down from thirty six percent above the national average, to four percent below the national average. That’s a forty two percent drop. The nine states with the lowest crime rates, are all open carry. Awareness of an armed citizenry has been shown to lower crime. In 1982, Atlanta suburb Kennesaw required all households to have a gun. The residential burglary rate subsequently dropped 89 percent in Kennesaw, compared to the modest 10.4 percent drop in Georgia as a whole. Ten years later the residential burglary rate in Kennesaw was still 72 percent lower than when the ordinance was passed (“Right-to-carry Gun Laws Linked to Increase in Violent Crime, Stanford Research