
“In his seminal work, ‘More Guns, Less Crime,’ scholar John Lott brought together FBI crime stats to show not only that concealed carry lowers crime but that it it lowers violent crime especially. During the early 1990s, as concealed carry laws were being instituted around the country, Lott observed the impact on crime at the county level: ‘When state concealed-carry handgun laws went into effect in a county, murder fell by about 8 percent, rapes fell by 5 percent, and aggravated assaults fell by 7 percent.’ Yet the mainstream media seizes on one criminal use of a gun to ban guns altogether?”
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