the facts DO NOT prove it. One study? You're hanging your entire point on one fucking study. That is not proof. 
BULL FUCKING SHIT
"No link between right-to-carry laws and changes in crime is apparent in the raw data, even in the initial sample; it is only once numerous covariates are included that the negative results in the early data emerge. While the trend models show a reduction in the crime growth rate following the adoption of right-to-carry laws, these trend reductions occur long after law adoption, casting serious doubt on the proposition that the trend models estimated in the literature reflect effects of the law change. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...e391_blog.html
		Originally Posted by WombRaider
			
		
	
i'l counter your googling with this. and this by the way comes from the stomping grounds of the current Mulatto in Chief, a notorious anti-guns rights libtard.
  
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...n-pe/?page=all
 By 
Kelly Riddell -  	 		The Washington Times -  										 											 											Sunday, August 24, 2014
An  86-year-old Illinois man with a concealed carry permit fired his weapon  at an armed robbery suspect fleeing police last month, stopping the man  in his tracks and allowing the police to make an arrest.
Law  enforcement authorities described the man as “a model citizen” who  “helped others avoid being victims” at an AT&T store outside 
Chicago  where he witnessed the holdup. The man, whose identity was withheld  from the press, prevented others from entering the store during the  theft.
Police said the robber harassed customers and pistol-whipped one.
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Since Illinois started granting concealed carry permits this year, the number of robberies that have led to arrests in 
Chicago  has declined 20 percent from last year, according to police department  statistics.
 Reports of burglary and motor vehicle theft are down 20  percent and 26 percent, respectively. In the first quarter, the city’s  homicide rate was at a 56-year low.
“It isn’t any coincidence  crime rates started to go down when concealed carry was permitted. Just  the idea that the criminals don’t know who’s armed and who isn’t has a  deterrence effect,” said Richard Pearson, executive director of the  Illinois State Rifle Association. “The police department hasn’t changed a  single tactic — they haven’t announced a shift in policy or of course —  and yet you have these incredible numbers.”
As of July 29 the  state had 83,183 applications for concealed carry and had issued 68,549  licenses. By the end of the year, Mr. Pearson estimates, 100,000  Illinois citizens will be packing. When Illinois began processing  requests in January, gun training and shooting classes — which are  required for the application — were filling up before the rifle  association was able to schedule them, Mr. Pearson said.
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“The  temperature would be 40 below, and you’d have these guys out on the  range, having to crack off the ice from their guns to see the target,”  Mr. Pearson said. “But they’d do it, because they were that passionate  about getting their license.”
The demand has slowed this summer,  but Mr. Pearson expects the state to issue about 300,000 concealed carry  permits when all is said and done.
Illinois became the 50th state  in the nation to issue concealed weapons permits. An individual permit  costs about $600 and requires at least 16 hours of classes.
Let's see .. how many states are there? 50. 
The  Chicago Police Department has credited better police work as a reason  for the lower crime rates this year. Police Superintendent Garry F.  McCarthy noted the confiscation of more than 1,300 illegal guns in the  first three months of the year, better police training and “intelligent  policing strategies.”
The Chicago Police Department didn’t respond to a request for comment from The Washington Times.
However,  the impact of concealed carry can’t be dismissed. Instead of creating  more crimes, which many gun control advocates warn, increased concealed  carry rates have coincided with lower rates of crime.
A July study  by the Crime Prevention Research Center found that 11.1 million  Americans have permits to carry concealed weapons, a 147 percent  increase from 4.5 million seven years ago. Meanwhile, homicide and other  violent crime rates have dropped by 22 percent.
“There’s a lot of  academic research that’s been done on this, and if you look at the  peer-reviewed studies, the bottom line is a large majority find a  benefit of concealed carry on crime rates — and, at worst, there’s no  cost,” said John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research  Center based in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. “You can deter criminals with  longer prison sentences and penalties, but arming people with the right  to defend themselves with a gun is also a deterrence.”
Within Illinois, Cook County, which encompasses 
Chicago,  has the state’s largest number of concealed carry applications, with  28,552 requests, according to the county’s website. Accounting for  population, however, less than 1 percent are carrying.
Mason  County has the top per-capita rate in Illinois, with 14 percent of its  residents holding concealed carry licenses, followed by Shelby County,  with 9 percent.
“When I talk to folks that are supporters of  concealed carry here, a lot of them want to get their permits so they  can keep a gun in the car just so they have it when they travel to  bigger towns and cities,” said Shelby County Sheriff Michael Miller.
Shelby  County is in southwestern Illinois, about an hour and 45 minutes  driving time from St. Louis. Its crime rate is low, and the majority of  charges are domestic-related, Sheriff Miller said. He doesn’t anticipate  concealed carry to change the statistics much.
“These are folks  who just want to exercise their Second Amendment rights,” Sheriff Miller  said. “Luckily, we don’t have a gang problem or any serious violent  crime. Our types are just rednecks that like to hunt and fish.”
Mason  County Sheriff Paul Gann said it’s too early to tell whether an  increased carry rate will have an influence on crime rates.
“What I  can tell you is we haven’t seen a spike in crime,” said Mr. Gann. “We  haven’t seen a spike in anything that’s gun-related — brandishing a  firearm, shootings, robberies, nothing. These are law-abiding  individuals.”
From a national perspective, Florida has the most  active concealed carry permits, at nearly 1.3 million. Texas is second,  with just over 708,000. Hawaii, at 183, has the fewest of states whose  data were available.
At 300,000 concealed carry licenses, Illinois would compare with Virginia, which has 363,274, and Alabama, with 379,917.
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