The Pittsburgh Tribune Review front page headline: “Demand high in Pa. to carry concealed guns.”
Demand for gun ownership in America continues to climb. The nation’s 14 million concealed-carry permit holders marks an all-time high, with women snapping up concealed carry permits at twice the rate of men between 2012 and 2016, the latest data from the Crime Prevention Research Center in Virginia show. Pennsylvania joins two states — Florida and Texas — in having more than 1 million concealed carry permit holders.
The number of concealed carry gun owners has spiked by 215 percent since 2007, the center found. . . .
Nationally the number of concealed carry permits has increased from 240,000 issued a year between 1999 and 2007 to 1.7 million this year. . . .
Here is also something from the Amarillo Globe News (Monday, August 22, 2016)
Target Practice
According to the report: “Between 2012 and 2016, in states that provide data by gender, the number of women with permits has increased twice as quickly as the number of men with permits … Some evidence suggests that permit-holding is increasing about 75 percent more quickly among minorities than among whites.”
Far too often, those who oppose the Second Amendment trot out the stereotype of those who support gun rights as white males, not to mention rural and uneducated, to put it politely.
As with some stereotypes, the truth — and least the past few years — is quite different. . . .
From Townhill, August 17, 2016
“Indeed, it is impossible to think of any other group in the U.S. that is anywhere near as law-abiding” as concealed carry permit holders. So concluded the Crime Prevention Research Center following its new report, “Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States 2016.” The center studied the rate of criminal offenses among concealed carry holders in Florida and Texas when coming to its conclusion.
The findings speak for themselves. . .
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