And to add even further contextual reference, many of the arrests were of the same individual, such as the rape, which was also arrested for sexual assault, assault involving family violence, battery, and a couple of other charges, IIRC. VPC took each arrest as a separate incident and attempted to cover their duplicity by suggesting that DPS accounted for multiple arrests of individuals in their report.Liko81 wrote:OK, so over 4 years, 3,370 crimes were committed by CHLs. I don't have accurate CHL data for all those years but there are roughly 225,000 CHLs in Texas. That means that 3 out of every thousand are arrested for a crime. This is not convictions, only arrests, and crimes for which CHLs were arrested in that time also include trespass by a CHL holder, unlawful carry (failure to conceal or 46.035), and other nonviolent crimes relating to misinformation or misconceptions about a CHL. These comprise the majority of arrests of CHLs.
Even assuming every arrest was for a malum in se crime such as assault, rape or murder, here are the conclusions of the statistical data provided by the DPS and used by the VPC, only this time it's taken in context:
And some of the arrests were for incidents that did not relate to CHL, or even involve a firearm.
And, as Charles mentioned above, an arrest does not equal conviction - several of those arrested were found not guilty, no billed, or even charges dropped before anything else occurred, such as the case of Gordon Hale III, who defended himself and was arrested but no-billed by the grand jury.
The NRA has a counter to this one posted at http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/R ... &issue=003