As Personal Gun Ownership In Michigan Goes Up, Crime Goes Down
Whenever a loosening of gun policy is brought up in a state we get the usual chorus of doom and gloom from liberals. They tell us that with more citizens owning and carrying guns the streets will run red with the blood of shooting victims. But the truth is that the more citizens who are allowed to own/carry weapons, the less dangerous the streets become.
The most recent example of his phenomena is Michigan.
Six years after new rules made it much easier to get a license to carry concealed weapons, the number of Michiganders legally packing heat has increased more than six-fold.
But dire predictions about increased violence and bloodshed have largely gone unfulfilled, according to law enforcement officials and, to the extent they can be measured, crime statistics.
The incidence of violent crime in Michigan in the six years since the law went into effect has been, on average, below the rate of the previous six years. The overall incidence of death from firearms, including suicide and accidents, also has declined.
It’s amazing what happens when you allow citizens to be self-reliant.
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