New Study: Concealed Carry Deters Murder
7th April 2014
Economist Mark Gius has a new study in the journal Applied Economics Letters that bears on the gun control debate. Gius finds that permissive concealed carry laws (generally, “shall issue”) result in a lower rate of homicide involving firearms. Conversely, state-level assault weapons bans have no statistically significant effect on the homicide rate involving guns.
Something that everyone realizes intuitively but few are willing to acknowledge publicly.