The White House for the CDC to perform some research on gun violence in America after Sandy Hook.In that study we got some surprising results given the source of the information, but it was information those in the gun community have known for a long time. Info such as, guns are regularly used in self defense and having a gun in a violent encounter greatly increases your chance of avoiding significant injury or death.
Now we have another study coming from an unlikely source. The Harvard Journal of Law conducted a study which concludes that gun control has little effect on murder rates. In fact, some findings of the study even point to the opposite, that countries with high rates of private gun ownership actually have lower rates than some countries with strict gun control laws. The study reinforces what we’ve known for a long time – violent crime rates are not related to the availability of inanimate objects, but is rather rooted in complex socio-economic and societal issues that can vary greatly.
As such......we should be able to look forward to a reduction in crime as concealed carry gets implemented in Illinois.
