Tuesday - January 08, 2008

no kidding. Really?

Michigan finds that more CCW holders equals less crime. Well, at least no more crime.

via Insty

Six years after new rules made it much easier to get a license to carry concealed weapons, the number of Michiganders legally packing heat has increased more than six-fold.

But dire predictions about increased violence and bloodshed have largely gone unfulfilled, according to law enforcement officials and, to the extent they can be measured, crime statistics.

Hey, what more needs to be said? We were right, and you were wrong. The Upper Penninsulas really isn’t covered in blood as you predicted, now is it?

More than 155,000 Michiganders—about one in every 65—are now authorized to carry loaded guns as they go about their everyday affairs, according to Michigan State Police records.

The other 64 in 65 probably are still waiting for their paperwork to be processed.

“I think the general consensus out there from law enforcement is that things were not as bad as we expected,” said Woodhaven Police Chief Michael Martin, cochair of the legislative committee for the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police. “There are problems with gun violence. But ... I think we can breathe a sigh of relief that what we anticipated didn’t happen.”

But, but, they said it was going to be the Wild West!! You promised us rivers of blood and mayhem in the streets! I want my money back. I’ve been disenfranshised. Recount!! Recount!!!

Kenneth Levin, a West Bloomfield physician, was one of those critics. In a letter to the Free Press in July 2001, he referred to the “inevitable first victim of road or workplace rage as a result of this law.”

Last month, Levin said he suspected “it probably hasn’t turned out as bad as I thought. I don’t think I was wrong, but my worst fears weren’t realized.”

gee whiz Lefty, so sorry to dissappoint you that your worst fears didn’t come true. Twit.
And in your great human compassion you’re just sitting there like an impatient HIV positive vulture, waiting for the first body to fall. Meanwhile ignoring all the other bodies felled by illegal gunfire of course. Mega-Twit.

Shikha Hamilton of Grosse Pointe, president of the Michigan chapter of the anti-gun group Million Moms March, said she believes overall gun violence (including suicide and accidental shootings) is up in Michigan since 2001. Many incidents involving CCW permit holders have not been widely reported, she said.

Cuz, you know, the press is like totally controlled by BushCo and the eviiil Right Wingnut Conspiracy. Yeah, like the MSM wouldn’t have 4 dimensional technicolor orgasms if illegal shootings increased when CCWs were issued. No, they’d cover that one up, like fer sher. Turbocharged Mega-Twit.

Hamilton said that even if gun violence has ebbed, it remains pervasive, tragic and unnecessary. At the least, a more liberal concealed weapons law means there are more guns in homes and cars and on the street, she said, and more potential for disaster.

Oooh, the potential. The potential!!!!!!111!! Let’s not let any facts or evidence cloud our judgement. After all, it’s based on our feeeewings.
Dingdingding!! We have ourselves a moonbat folks!    

Mark Cortis of Royal Oak, who conducts concealed weapons license training and sits on the Oakland County gun board, said he believes the benefits of an armed citizenry are evident in small ways almost every day, as permit holders deter trouble and live more confidently.

“The police just can’t protect you,” Cortis said. “If you have to call 911, it’s probably already too late.”

Got that right. Thank you Mr. Cortis. I’m so glad there is at least one functioning brain up there. Hey, wait a second ... the Oakland County gun board?? What the Hell is that?

You can read what little bits I didn’t quote in the article here.

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