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If you want to argue that concealed carry directly reduces crime rate You're fighting someone else, I make no such claims, I'm pretty sure simple demographics,
by hga 11y ago
If you want to argue that concealed carry directly reduces crime rate
You're fighting someone else, I make no such claims, I'm pretty sure simple demographics, particularly the wave of young men in the Baby Boom, is the biggest factor, and swamps all others to the point it's hard to discern any other cause. Although perhaps if we'd locked up those criminals at the rate we'd locked up previous generations it would have gone differently.
All I claim is that at worst it's Mostly Harmless.
- vacri 11y agoI dunno, when someone quotes a particular segment of what I'm saying, then provides an argument to refute it, I generally assume that they're taking up that argument. And apparently "wild success" has now transmogrified to "mostly harmless"?
- hga 11y agoA wild success in being Mostly Harmless. Every time a shall issue regime or better has replaced a more restrictive one, look at colleges as of late since we've run out of states with Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa joining the party, we're assured by our betters that this will result in "Blood in the streets!", "Dodge City!" and all that. You yourself referred to this change with the loaded term "proliferation", and have shown no sign you welcome it, so my limited defense ought to be enough. And, no, I'm hardly taking up the arguments of every person in the Internet debates, which have raged through this entire modern Florida and on period of shall issue laws. You have a beef with them, address it to them. Me, I don't "feel as uneasy about that proliferation" because before it happened I had more trust in my fellow Americans, and now with decades of hindsight and these laws or better (Constitional Carry in 10 states) now covering 43 states and 72% of the population, we know it's Mostly Harmless.
- vacri 11y ago> A wild success in being Mostly Harmless. Seriously? > I'm hardly taking up the arguments of every person in the Internet debates You keep on moving the goalposts. I didn't assign to you "everyone's arguments". You chose to engage me, and are now pretending to have a neutral point of view, despite your own loaded term 'constitutional carry' to replace concealed carry. You engaged me of your own accord, and now that I engage you back, you're saying I should take my beef elsewhere? Take some responsibility for your own actions.