https://www.gunstocarry.com/concealed-carry-statistics/
CCW Permit Holders Who Break The Law
CCW permit holders according to the statistics are unlikely to break the law. Remember there are over 16.3 million permit holders in the US so any violations are very rare. In fact there are probably no other groups of people in the US who are as law abiding. If we compare concealed carry permit holders to the police we can see just how law abiding they really are. The Police Quarterly conducted a study that showed police committed;
- 703 crimes per year (average from 2005 – 2007)
- 113 of those crimes involved firearms violations
That may be an underestimate when you take into consideration that not every crime committed by the police gets media attention. From 2005 – 2007 there was about 685,464 full time police officers in the US. This allows us to calculate that there was;
103 crimes per hundred thousand officers.
The crime rate for the entire US population was 37 times higher;
3,813 crimes per hundred thousand people
It may be that police crimes do not get reported as much due to fellow officers staying silent. But you cannot ignore the fact that there is a big gap between the police and the general population when it comes to reported crimes. If you look at the following figures you will see that concealed carry permit holders are actually more law abiding than the police.
Florida revoked 11,189 concealed carry permits for violations such as misdemeanors or felonies between 1987 -2017. This works out an annual rate of 10.4 permits revoked per 100,000.
Texas had 148 concealed carry permit holders convicted of a misdemeanor or felony in 2016. This works out to a conviction rate of 12.3 percent per 100,000. When the Texas and Florida data is combined it shows that CCW permit holders are convicted of felonies and misdemeanors at a rate of 2.4 per 100,000. While among police the rate is 16.5 per 100,000 officers. Texas and Florida have some of the highest rates of CCW permit holders but the figures are similar in other states with less permit holders.
In summary CCW permit holders are convicted of crimes at less than a sixth of that for police officers.
Banning guns in the hands of CHLicensees is a remedy in search of a problem. This group does not commit mass shootings, and commits crimes at a far lower level than that of police officers. Banning this law abiding group - which is carefully vetted, has no basis in reality of the propensity of this group to commit gun crimes.
Foolish Laws that do nothing to decrease the problem.
Ya think a mass shooter cares about obtaining a CHL and /or minding the signs which prohibit CHL carriers entering a site???
IMHO - now let's hear the misguided DPST bleats that banning AR-15's will solve all our problems.
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