• @[email protected]
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      -118 hours ago

      Concealed carriers commit violent crimes at 1/10th the rate of the general public. If you want to stop gun crimes, you would be more successful by prohibiting everyone except concealed carriers.

      • @MothmanDelorian
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        13 hours ago

        Concealed carriers have a lower rate of criminality because of how selective the process is to get that license. As that becomes easier to get we will see less ideal candidates getting that license and thus spiking that number.

      • @brygphilomena
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        318 hours ago

        Isn’t that the default state? Prohibited concealed carriers except those permitted?

        • @[email protected]
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          018 hours ago

          I’m saying that if we are going to try to increase safety by banning people from public buildings and parks on the basis of whether they are carrying a gun, it would be statistically safer to ban non-carriers than carriers.

          I’m not suggesting that we actually do this, of course.

          • @[email protected]
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            014 hours ago

            Agreed.

            The people who apply for permits are the ones who’ll obey the law.

            I guess that means that permits are not an effective deterrent and that we should just ban guns altogether.