Chicago Concealed Carry: Murder Rate Drops to Lowest in 56 Years

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Miguel_Zorro said:

pokoko said:
A gun law so powerful that it had a dramatic effect even a full year before it went into a effect?

Exactly.  This had nothing to do with a change in concealed carry laws.  I'm not strongly for or against gun control.  I *am* strongly for evidence based policy. There was a large decrease in the murder rate from 2012 to 2013, BEFORE the concealed carry law.  In fact, the crime rate has been dropping in Chicago since the early 90s.  It's been dropping across the United States since the early 90s.

Here's the murder rate in NYC, for comparison.  Gun control laws remain strict there.  

Here's a chart that shows the violent crime rate for the entire United States.  Same drop.

Yep, we're safer and more prosperous than we've ever been.

That's why we need to keep spending more and more money on national security, throw more people in prison, equip the cops with tanks and assualt weapons, and loosen restrictions on gun ownership.

Apparently, the safer we are, the more terrifying the boogeyman becomes.