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For a minute there I took their bait, but then I realized their “study” doesn’t mean anything.

We do not have to prove it lowers the crime rate for us to exercise our rights under the constitution.

If that were the case, then they should have to prove it will make a positive impact on society before they can publish the results of a “study”.

Instead of just “cherry picking” the data looks to me like they structured the whole “study” to get what they wanted.

I’m a little confused.

Has the crime rate gone up or down since Texas passed concealed carry?

Has the crime rate gone up or down in states that don’t have concealed carry?

“We decided in order to hopefully improve on that what we would do is not look at the passage of legislation but instead we’d look at the rate at which conceal handgun licenses were issued and changes in crime,” Phillips said.

Phillips said researchers looked at this data on a county by county basis in four different states.”

Sounds like cherry picking the data to get what they wanted to me. I am disappointed that A&M would go along with this though.