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echo: guns
to: MATT SMITH
from: DAVID HANNON
date: 1996-08-06 21:45:00
subject: Re: CCW REDUCES CRIME RAT

MS>>DH>     The nationwide study found that  violent crime fell after states
MS>>DH> made it legal to carry concealed handguns.
MS>>DH>     The University of Chicago study, obtained by USA TODAY, is set to
MS>>DH> be
MS>>DH> released next Thursday. But its impending release has already sent
MS>>DH> shock
MS>>DH> waves through the gun control debate because of the effect it may
MS>>DH> have
MS>>DH> on one of the most controversial areas of gun law.
MS>>DH>     Gun control backer Josh Sugarman of the Violence Policy Center
MS>>DH> blasted the study: "Anyone who argues that these laws reduce crime
MS>>DH> either doesn't understand the nature of crime
MS>>    What does it take to "understand the nature of crime", if doing a
MS>>national statistical study won't do?
Exactly right.  Some people will never accept the truth, no matter how
it is presented to them.  Even if it is a fifteen year, 3,000 county
study by an accredited college.
David
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