Soleron said: This is incredibly biased. Next time just state the ruling and outcome. If you care to put an opinion, do if afterwards and make clear it's your own. The US currently bans possession of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, for the sole reason that they can only be used to kill and injure people. Why does this not apply to guns (assuming the hunting and recreational practices get permits)?
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The studies aren't really inconclusive. It's just a matter of what you define "protecting yourself."
Some studies show concealed carry greatly lowers crime rates, others don't.
The ones that don't require that a person be shot at, or otherwise assualted before pulling out a gun, for it to be considered stopping a crime. If they don't... even if they say, walked towards you with a knife shouting they were going to stab you.... it doesn't count.
While the ones that say they do, require that a person feel "sufficently threatened" when they pulled out a gun and the attacker fled done through testing of their stressors when they talk about it. Sometimes with the result being judged by people to whether or not there really was a crime.
So it really depends on which one of those methods you think is more valid. The whole "inconclusive" thing was just to pay lipservice to the other studies which are out there, and state that it doesn't stop crime, even though i'm sure most people would find their methods... off...