Bogus Crap.

Are you deliberately spreading this lie, or simply (and stupidly) repeating
something you've been told?

Your argument, (that the less restriction there is on the right to carry
firearms the lower the crime rate will be), refutes itself.

There are only 2 states in the union with almost unlimited right to carry a
concealed weapon.
Vermont, and Alaska.

You'll like the Vermont statistic:
In 2002, Vermont had the second lowest number of violent crimes per 100,000
residents. 106.7 crimes. North Dakota was
lower, at only 78.2 violent crimes per 100,000.

You won't like the Alaska statistic: In the other state where anybody and
everybody can carry a concealed weapon, the violent crime rate is 12th highest
in the country.
563 violent crimes per 10,000 population.

Violent Crimes are the offenses of murder, forcible rape, robbery, and
aggravated assault.

*All* of the eleven states with greater numbers of violent crime per 10,000
population than Alaska also have RTC laws, except Illinois. They states with
higher rates of violent crime than Alaska a

South Carolina 822
Florida 770
Maryland 769
New Mexico 739
Tennesee 716
Louisiana 662
Nevada 637
Illinois 620
Delaware 599
California 593
Texas 578


Illinois has no right to carry, and is in the dirty dozen, crime wise.

The other three states with no right to carry a

Nebraska: 313
Kansas: 376
Wisconsin: 224

While you can establish that the safest state in the union (VT) has almost
unlimited right to carry, it is also true that 11 of the 12 most dangerous
states have very few restrictions on the right to carry.

The states with no RTC are not, as your claim would suggest, unusally high
crime areas or automatically less safe than states with a free-for-all handgun
policy.
Again, look at Alaska.

Eleven of the 12 states with the *highest* per capita crime rate have few or no
restrictions on RTC.

Sources for all numbers in this post: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform
Crime Reports, 2002.

Looks like there's *no* correlation between RTC states and low rates of violent
crime.

Shove that up your NRA pipe and smoke it.