Violence Policy Center's Misleading Concealed Carry Murder Numbers.... [View All]

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If you go to their website they are promoting the 288 murders caused by CCW license holders.

What is not shown is the details.

These 288 murders occurred over a 4 year period. So it is an average of 72 per year.

Each year there is an average of 7,500 people killed by handguns. So this means CCW license holders commit less than 1% of these murders. And this also assumes NONE of these 288 murders would have happened if CCW laws were not in place, which we all know is not true.

I other words, that means NON-CCW holders commit 99% of the handgun murders in the USA every year. The non CCW holders sound like the dangerous ones to me.

There are six million CCW license holders in the USA. Not counting the states that allow CCW with no permit. So I would say 288 murders out of six million CCW holders means they are a pretty law abiding bunch.