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There actually is data suggesting relaxation of carry laws leads to an increase in gun violence. You will never hear about it because the gun rights folks muffle anything that suggests that there is any issue with carrying a gun. Look before you accuse me of being anti gun, I am not. Not an owner but I have no problem with a citizen obtaining one within reasonable rules. Why should we relax background checks and common sense measures?
Going back to your question. Here is the data that you will never see. It is rather ridiculous to suggest that this is the only factor in increased crime. It is equally ridiculous to suggest that increased crime is only because of bad local policing and enforcement policies.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health show that states removing concealed carry licensing requirements (and their corresponding live-fire training mandates) experienced a 32 percent increase in gun assaults.
:Research analyzed by organizations such as the Giffords Law Center indicates that weakening public carry standards is associated with a 13% to 15% increase in violent crime rates.
Analyses, including research from the National Center for Biotechnology Information, suggest right-to-carry expansions increase stolen gun rates, which boosts the supply of illegal firearms on the street.
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Officer-Involved Shootings and Concealed Carry Weapons Permitting Laws: Analysis of Gun Violence Archive Data, 2014-2020
Mitchell L Doucette "Center for Gun Violence Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. [email protected]."About 1,000 civilians are killed every year by a law enforcement officer in the USA, more than 90% by firearms. Most civilians who are shot are armed with a firearms. Higher rates of officer-involved shootings (OIS) are positively associated with state-level firearm ownership. Laws relaxing restrictions on civilians carrying concealed firearms (CCW) have been associated with increased violent crime. This study examines associations between CCW laws and OIS. We accessed counts of fatal and nonfatal OIS from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) from 2014-2020 and calculated rates using population estimates. We conducted legal research to identify passage years of CCW laws. We used an augmented synthetic control models with fixed effects to estimate the effect of Permitless CCW law adoption on OIS over fourteen biannual semesters. We calculated an inverse variance weighted average of the overall effect. On average, Permitless CCW adopting states saw a 12.9% increase in the OIS victimization rate or an additional 4 OIS victimizations per year, compared to what would have happened had law adoption not occurred. Lax laws regulating civilian carrying of concealed firearms were associated with higher incidence of OIS. The increase in concealed gun carrying frequency associated with these laws may influence the perceived threat of danger faced by law enforcement. This could contribute to higher rates of OIS.
Impact of Changes to Concealed-Carry Weapons Laws on Fatal and Nonfatal Violent Crime, 1980-2019
Mitchell L Doucette, Alexander D McCourt, Cassandra K Crifasi, Daniel W WebsterAbstract
The United States faces rapidly rising rates of violent crime committed with firearms. In this study, we sought to estimate the impact of changes to laws that regulate the concealed carrying of weapons (concealed-carry weapons (CCW) laws) on violent crimes committed with a firearm. We used augmented synthetic control models and random-effects meta-analyses to estimate state-specific effects and the average effect of adopting shall-issue CCW permitting laws on rates of 6 violent crimes: homicide with a gun, homicide by other means, aggravated assault with a gun, aggravated assault with a knife, robbery with a gun, and robbery with a knife. The average effects were stratified according to the presence or absence of several shall-issue permit provisions. Adoption of a shall-issue CCW law was associated with a 9.5% increase in rates of assault with a firearm during the first 10 years after law adoption and was associated with an 8.8% increase in rates of homicide by other means. When shall-issue laws allowed violent misdemeanants to acquire CCW permits, the laws were associated with higher rates of gun assaults. It is likely that adoption of shall-issue CCW laws has increased rates of nonfatal violent crime committed with firearms. Harmful effects of shall-issue laws are most clear when provisions intended to reduce risks associated with civilian gun-carrying are absent.So in a nutshell, one could say that a possible reason that Memphis, StLouis, and Little Rock lead the country in violent crime is that all of these cities are in states that have relaxed gun carry laws to the detriment of their populace. I have looked and I see no evidence that your conclusion of the association of local government policies with violent crimes has any bearing. If I am missing something, prove me wrong. It is also equally appropriate to just concede an argument that you can't win. My suggestion is the latter.
No that’s not what I said. I don’t doubt the stats. It’s just that they have nothing to do with Mandami. He’s passed no policies or enacted anything to effectuate any change in this regard. Any decrease in crime is completely unrelated to him entering office in January.
Except he actually did enact policy changes. I know it's hard to admit he can do anything good, but even Trump has warmed up to the guy.
Looks like he increased police presence in violent areas and confiscated more illegal firearms.
There was establishment of school and transportation safety zones and targeting of gangs as well.
Policies like more accessible child care could contribute as well.
With respect you don't know what you are talking about.
