From Fox Channel 8 in Cleveland.
…Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones announced Tuesday his office is offering free CCW classes to churches “that have or are implementing security teams.” This comes after a deadly shooting at a church in Texas Sunday.
“Unfortunately, in these days and times, no place is immune from mass shootings and we want our citizens to go to church without worry and fear feeling safe and secure to worship with their families and fellow church members,” Sheriff Jones said.
Up until now it has been virtually impossible to get a concealed handgun permit in Puerto Rico. The new law has them move to right-to-carry, with a $200 fee, though that is about four times higher than the national average and will mean that lower income individuals, the ones who most need the protection, will be the ones least able to afford the fee.…
Getting a concealed handgun permit in California is difficult. In most counties, the strict, 16-hour training requirement and high fees aren’t the biggest obstacles. The biggest difficulty is simply convincing local law enforcement to agree that you have a legitimate reason to get a permit.
…Mims said she’s tried to encourage people to apply for CCW licenses since she was elected sheriff in 2006.
Dr. John Lott talks with Judge Napolitano about crime reduction when law-abiding citizens own and carry guns for self-defense.
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UPDATE: New Rasmussen Poll: “59% of all voters are concerned that those opposed to President Trump’s policies will resort to violence, with 33% who are Very Concerned” During March of Obama’s second year in office, the same numbers were “53% and 28% respectively.”
ORIGINAL: We are about one year from when Representative Steve Scalise was severely wounded and other Republican Congressmen were shot at while they were at baseball practice.…
…“You rarely hear an instance where a CCL holder is using their firearm in an unlawful manner. They’re generally law-abiding citizens, and they’ve gone to great lengths to get to where they’re at to have a CCL. And they’ve taken training to get there. And most of them, they understand what the requirements are to use force to defend themselves.”
— Lt.
concealed carry, How law-abiding are concealed handgun permit holders
We know of seven cases: two involving a teacher at an elementary school (though in one of these cases the teacher was carrying the gun illegally) and the other six at colleges and universities around the country. These relatively minor and rare cases are consistent with the evidence that we have gathered from six states on their not being any increase in insurance premiums for schools that allow teachers and staff to carry. …
concealed carry, concealed handguns allowed on school property, gun accidents, School Shootings
In 2013, LA Weekly obtained a list of the 341 concealed carry permit holders in Los Angeles County, California. That is only about 0.0045% of the 7.7 million adults living in the county in 2013. As of January this year, there were only 226 permits, about 0.0029% of the adult population. …
concealed carry, CPRC original research, impact of gun control on the poor, women
John Donohue responded to our comments on our website and in an op-ed at Fox News. Below we go through and respond to the points that he raised. Amusingly, the author of the original piece in Michael Bloomberg’s “The Trace” emailed Donohue as soon as my comments came out. While The Trace pretends to be a regular news outlet, Mr.…
An unpublished study by John Donohue, Abhay Aneja, and Kyle Weber has received a lot of attention for supposedly finding some evidence that right-to-carry laws increase overall violent crime rates. It has been covered in Newsweek, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Vice, Snopes, and many newspapers such as Newsday and the Salt Lake City Tribune. …
concealed carry, John Donohue, media bias on guns, Response to critics
