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From the Radio Free Michigan archives
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CARRYING CONCEALED FIREARMS (CCW) STATISTICS
Violent crime rates are highest overall in states with laws
severely limiting or prohibiting the carrying of concealed firearms
for self-defense. (FBI Uniform Crime Reports, 1992)
- The total Violent Crime Rate is 26% higher in the
restrictive states (798.3 per 100,000 pop.) than in the
less restrictive states (631.6 per 100,000).
- The Homicide Rate is 49% higher in the restrictive states
(10.1 per 100,000) than in the states with less
restrictive CCW laws (6.8 per 100,000).
- The Robbery Rate is 58% higher in the restrictive states
(289.7 per 100,000) than in the less restrictive states
(183.1 per 100,000).
- The Aggravated Assault Rate is 15% higher in the
restrictive states (455.9 per 100,000) than in the less
restrictive states (398.3 per 100,000).
Using the most recent FBI data (1992), homicide trends in the 17
states with less restrictive CCW laws compare favorably against
national trends, and almost all CCW permittees are law-abiding.
- Since adopting CCW (1987), Florida's homicide rate has fallen
21% while the U.S. rate has risen 12%. From start-up 10/1/87
- 2/28/94 (over 6 yrs.) Florida issued 204,108 permits; only
17 (0.008%) were revoked because permittees later committed
crimes (not necessarily violent) in which guns were present
(not necessarily used).
- Of 14,000 CCW licensees in Oregon, only 4 (0.03%) were
convicted of the criminal (not necessarily violent) use or
possession of a firearm.
Americans use firearms for self-defense more than 2.1 million times
annually.
- By contrast, there are about 579,000 violent crimes committed
annually with firearms of all types. Seventy percent of
violent crimes are committed by 7% of criminals, including
repeat offenders, many of whom the courts place on probation
after conviction, and felons that are paroled before serving
their full time behind bars.
- Two-thirds of self-protective firearms uses are with handguns.
- 99.9% of self-defense firearms uses do not result in fatal
shootings of criminals, an important factor ignored in certain
"studies" that are used to claim that guns are more often
misused than used for self-protection.
- Of incarcerated felons surveyed by the Department of Justice,
34% have been driven away, wounded, or captured by armed
citizens; 40% have decided against committing crimes for fear
their would-be victims were armed.
OTHER CCW FACTS
With adoption of CCW by Arizona, Tennessee and Wyoming in
early 1994, 19 states have CCW laws requiring the issuance of
permits to carry concealed firearms for self-defense to citizens
who meet fair and reasonable state standards. Vermont, which ranks
near the bottom in violent crime rates year-in and year-out, allows
firearms to be carried concealed without a permit.
In recent years NRA successfully fought for the adoption of
favorable CCW laws now on the books in Florida (1987), Idaho (1990,
amended 1991), Mississippi (1990), Montana (1991), and Oregon
(1990). In recent legislative sessions, proposals for similar CCW
laws have progressed in Alaska, Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma and
Texas.
Anti-gun forces oppose CCW with a variety of arguments,
ranging from deliberate misrepresentations of commonly available
crime data to "studies" pretending to show that private ownership
of firearms leads to death and injury rather than providing
protection to the owner.
1. Firearms ownership opponents claim that "violent crime" went
up in Florida since that state enacted CCW legislation in 1987, a
misleading statement for multiple reasons:
- Florida's homicide rate has declined 21% since adopting CCW in
1987.
- No comparison of aggravated assault, robbery, and rape (99.3%
of Florida violent crimes) beginning before 1988 is valid,
according to the Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement. In 1988,
Florida changed its method of compiling crime statistics.
- In Florida, as in the U.S., more than 70% of violent crimes do
not involve guns. Violent crime rates, therefore, don't
necessarily reflect violent gun-related crime trends. According to
the most recent FBI Uniform Crime Reports (1992), nationwide
firearms were used in the four violent crimes that make up the
total "Violent Crime" category, as follows: Aggravated Assault
(58% of violent crimes) -- firearms used in 25%; Robbery (35% of
violent crimes) -- firearms used in 41%; Rapes (6% of violent
crimes) -- firearms used in an estimated 5%-10% (survey data); and
Homicides (1% of violent crimes) -- firearms used in 68%.
In Florida: Aggravated Assaults (64% of violent crimes) --
firearms used in 25%; Robberies (30% of violent crimes) -- firearms
used in 37%; Rapes (4% of violent crimes) -- firearms used in an
estimated 5%-10% (survey data); and Homicides (0.7% of violent
crimes) -- firearms used in 61%.
2. Anti-gunners cite "studies" they claim show that firearms kept
at home are "43 times more likely" to be used to kill family
members than be used for self-defense. (Other "studies" claim
different ratios.) The 43:1 claim, based upon a small-scale study
of Kings County (Seattle) and Shelby County (Memphis), is a fraud,
because it counts as self-defense gun uses only those cases in
which criminals were killed in the defender's home. Approximately
99.9% of all defensive gun uses are not fatal shootings, however --
criminals are usually frightened off, held at bay, or non-fatally
wounded. Also, many defensive firearms uses occur away from home.
Further, suicides were counted as "family member killings" in the
"study," elevating that number more than 500%. Unfortunately, some
of these "studies" are funded with taxpayer dollars, through grants
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a division of
the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
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