More Guns, Less Crime In California’s Concealed Carry Capitol

By Cam Edwards

One of the fundamental beliefs of gun control activists is that “more guns equals more crime”. The only problem is that isn’t true. At all. There are somewhere around 400-million privately owned firearms in the United States, and while that number has soared over the past few decades, violent crime rates have declined dramatically. The same holds true for concealed carry and violent crime. It’s estimated there are now more than 17-million concealed carry licensees across the country, and violent crime continues to drop. In Florida, for example, the homicide rate was 11.4 per 100,000 people when right to carry laws went into effect in 1987. By 2017, there were well over one million concealed carry holders in the state, and the homicide rate had fallen to 5.0 per 100,000.

New data out of California provides more evidence that the presence of legal gun owners and lawful gun carries doesn’t increase crime. The Fresno Bee recently reported that Fresno County has the highest number of concealed carry licensees in the state, followed by Orange County. If “more guns equals more crime”, then more people carrying guns …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms