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Re: The Staggering Safety of Living With CHL Holders Among Us
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 5:37 pm
by Taypo
AndyC wrote:Some amusing stats - here's one:
In 2013 Texas had 26,448,193 citizens. Of those, 4 people were murdered by a CHL holder. That puts the probability of being murdered in Texas by a CHL holder at a mind-blowing –
.0151/100,000
The national homicide rate (or probability of getting murdered)? 4.3/100,000. Only a 28,000% difference.
And we’re the ones you’re worried about?
http://www.ammoland.com/2015/09/the-sta ... -among-us/
That's an amazing stat. Not unexpected, but still amazing.
Re: The Staggering Safety of Living With CHL Holders Among Us
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:49 am
by joe817
What an interesting article Andy! A very good read. Thanks for posting.
The stats the author stated are very comforting to us CHL holders. But they are nothing new to us. But what struck me as prophetic is this paragraph(taken out of context, but still relevant, IMO):
"Take for example this recent blog post by Huffington Post writer Carter Gaddis, that went viral, in which a father describes his instant fear and apprehension at seeing an NRA decal. Or there’s the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence encouraging their followers to (criminally) call the police on anyone they see with a firearm, whether open or conceal carried, to “protect the safety of your loved ones.”
It seems to me as though we’re not the paranoid ones – they are."
How true. How true.