Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Concealed Carry Killers

The New York Times picks up the meme. [Read]

Gee, what a surprise.

Hey, Michael Luo: Any time you want to compare your anecdotes to my "Only Ones" files...

Got a ton of new outrages emailed to me over Christmas, just haven't had time to do anything with them.

2 comments:

Bruce Krafft said...

Reason does a good job shredding this story: http://reason.com/blog/2011/12/27/scare-story-about-carry-permit-holders-s
Basically permit-holders in NC are 20 times less likely than the general public to be convicted of a felony.

Michael Gilson said...

National Review's Robert VerBruggen dissects the NYT article and shows that their statistics actually demonstrate that North Carolina permit holders are far more law abiding than the population as a whole.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/286685/inyti-s-bad-gun-statistics-robert-verbruggen