Concealed carry laws: Plenty of data to back up both sides

[Ashrak]

http://www.sj-r.com/archive/x1664757659/g12c000a6a77ea4f6cd8431c66866267f10cead8d9d0c41.jpg

 

Link

 

How can two researchers with access to the same data reach such opposite conclusions?

 

(John Donohue III and John Lott)

 

In Michigan, which issued nearly 66,500 concealed-gun permits in the year ending last June, police also say they haven’t noticed any change in crime that can be linked to concealed weapons since the state began issuing permits in 2001.

 

However, they also say they haven’t noticed a downside.

 

“There was a great concern when the law first passed that it would be problematic for law enforcement,” said Shanon Banner, spokeswoman for Michigan State Police. “That really hasn’t come to fruition.”

 

As one commentator has already pointed out - notice the hammer position in the featured picture.

One thing is self evident, the SJ-R is more engaged on this subject than I can recall over the last decade, at least.

 

As we all have spent time and effort making calls to our legislators, I would offer engaging this reporter would be be worthwhile at this point in time.

 

From the article

Bruce Rushton can be reached at 788-1542.

[Ol'Coach]

As one commentator has already pointed out - notice the hammer position in the featured picture.

 

...and the trigger finger! Whoa!!!

[Ashrak]

As one commentator has already pointed out - notice the hammer position in the featured picture.

 

...and the trigger finger! Whoa!!!

Exactly. This is what they think of us brother. They think we are loose cannons with our finger on the trigger.

 

I sent this cat an email this morning. We will see if he responds.

[lee n. field]

As one commentator has already pointed out - notice the hammer position in the featured picture.

 

...and the trigger finger! Whoa!!!

Exactly. This is what they think of us brother. They think we are loose cannons with our finger on the trigger.

 

 

 

No, it's probably a stock picture they picked up somewhere, and they have no clue as to the safety problems we notice.

[Lou]

It's funny how they used a different picture for this story - both ladies though.

[moparcardave]

Hum lots of things in that picture. Is it a guy with a shoulder bag or purse at least he/she is style orientated. Looks like a person of slight build with clean fingernails, no rings, and wearing pleated pants. Could be a woman with her Llama IIIA 380. No way to tell whether he/she has the thumb safety on or off who knows. Her assailant could be within a few feet and they have to draw. Perhaps he/she was being attacked for carryingi a purse and swinging the purse up to shoot the attacker through the bottom of the purse. More then likely just a stock photo. I suspect taken from some site that sells conceal carry handbag and shoulderbags. Sure is interesting what can be seen in one photo.

[Don Gwinn]

Read the whole thing . . . remember last week when they asked for reader opinions? They printed ONLY pro-RTC opinions. Not ONE anti-RTC letter made it into the article. I'm not entirely sure what that means . . . I actually wonder whether they only received pro-RTC messages; their orientation is somewhere between balanced and mildly anti-gun, so it's hard to imagine that they didn't want to balance it out with at least one anti-RTC message from a reader.

 

Then again, there are anti-gun comments on the article at the website, so I don't know.

[Heavy]

As one commentator has already pointed out - notice the hammer position in the featured picture.

 

...and the trigger finger! Whoa!!!

 

 

She's already missing her pinky finder on her left hand...some people never learn...

 

 

[moparcardave]

As one commentator has already pointed out - notice the hammer position in the featured picture.

 

...and the trigger finger! Whoa!!!

 

 

She's already missing her pinky finder on her left hand...some people never learn...

 

 

 

 

The pinky finger was shot off in the last incident...

[Ashrak]

I got a response to a mail I sent, though not yet from the author of the article. I was told the trigger finger cocked picture was selected from a pool of photos depicting concealed carry. The picture they used in print had 'dimensions' that wouldn't allow it to be used online....

A song I am reminded of....

[Ol'Coach]

I got a response to a mail I sent, though not yet from the author of the article. I was told the trigger finger cocked picture was selected from a pool of photos depicting concealed carry. The picture they used in print had 'dimensions' that wouldn't allow it to be used online....

A song I am reminded of....

 

HA!...and we ain't buyin'!!!!!!!

[Xwing]

http://www.sj-r.com/archive/x1664757659/g12c000a6a77ea4f6cd8431c66866267f10cead8d9d0c41.jpg

 

 

I hope that's an SAO gun, with the hammer back that way. And trigger-finger

 

I think it was done on purpose.