Violence Policy Center and an amazing fact about their stats.....

[Logical]

I was reading their web site. Mostly lies as you can assume. But their big thing is tracking how many CC License holders kill people. They include suicides in this total which is stupid because you don't need a CC license to own a gun and shoot yourself.

But where they really fail in in this statement.....

"Above is the current tally from May 2007 to the present of killings involving persons with concealed carry permits or who committed a killing in public with a legal handgun in a state that allows concealed carry without a permit (Alaska, Arizona, and Vermont allow the carrying of concealed handguns without a permit).

So, if you live in Alaska, Arizona or Vermont and kill yourself or shoot someone and kill them you are included in their CC License holder stats automatically just because you do not need a CC license in those states. So they can really pad their totals with all the citizens of those states.

And there are only 391 on their list since May of 2007. Including suicides. In five years! During the same time there were 40,000 gun murders and 50,000 suicides by guns. So over 90,000 deaths from guns in that period and the CC License holders committed 400 of them. Sounds like a pretty safe group!

[mia]

1. Very interesting.

Thanks for paying attention.

[Logical]

2. Not sure what that means. Clarify.

[ellisonz]

3. You're confused by that...

...seemed like a fairly straightforward comment.

[fightthegoodfightnow]

4. It's So Very Important

.......to give the mentally ill guns so they can kill themselves?

I see your point.....no one, especially gun control advocates should be tracking that.

What nonsense.

[gejohnston]

5. that is not the point

the point is that the group is pushing the idea that he would not have shot himself without a CCW.

[fightthegoodfightnow]

6. The Point Is...

....the mentally ill should not have guns.

[gejohnston]

7. that is your point

their point is dishonest.

[fightthegoodfightnow]

9. Killing Yourself

....is a crime.

[Callisto32]

10. Funny huh.

I guess you DON'T own your body after all.

[Logical]

12. Who is "giving" them guns?

[ileus]

8. They just keep on cooking the numbers....

[Clames]

11. It's the only way they can stay relevant.

Majority of Americans know they are full of it and what little funding they receive would dry up if they didn't put on a little show every now and then.