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May 09 2008

Violent Crimes and Concealed Carry

Posted by: Sebastian in Carrying / Self-Defense

Pretty conclusive that states with right-to-carry laws have lower crime rates than those that don’t.

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One Response to “Violent Crimes and Concealed Carry”
  1. rightwingprof says:

    May 9th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    Hmmm. I’m getting a Spearman r of 0.117, which is pretty weak. But the FBI data file is a mess (somebody really needs to teach them basic spreadsheet deisgn), and I’ve got other things to do, so I only distinguished between RTC and non-RTC states. Maybe I’ll play with it more this weekend.

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