More Concealed Carry Data

[Mr VJP]

"[A]fter every multiple murder, liberals come up with  some crackpot idea to 'do something' that invariably involves  infringing on some aspect of our Second Amendment rights. ... In an  open society that includes Sheriff Dumbnik and the ACLU, deranged  individuals may explode into murder and mayhem now and then. The best  we can do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these  acts of carnage occur. There's only one policy of any kind that has  ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. In a  comprehensive study of all public, multiple-shooting incidents in  America between 1977 and 1999, the highly regarded economists John Lott  and Bill Landes found that concealed-carry laws were the only laws that  had any beneficial effect. And the effect was not small. States that  allowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting  attacks by 60 percent and reduced the death and injury from these  attacks by nearly 80 percent. When there are no armed citizens to stop  mass murderers, the killers are able to shoot unabated, even pausing to  reload their weapons, until they get bored and stop. ... Consider just  the school shootings -- popular sites for mass murder because so many  schools are 'gun-free zones.' Or, as mass murderers call them,  'free-fire zones.'" --columnist Ann Coulter