Good look at concealed carry

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Bartholomew Roberts

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The Sunday Edition of the Dallas Morning News takes a look at concealed carry and allows the pro-rights people a chance to speak.
http://dallasnews.com/lifestyles/107962_GUNS09.html

Stop by and check the link out; remember that websites can measure traffic and newspapers are in the business of attracting readers. If there is one thing we want to do, it is to encourage positive coverage of gun rights issues by mainstream media.
 
A real good article, no flames toward the CHL owners and a chance for them to explain why the CHL.

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It also helps to thank the reporter and/or editors. Positive feedback makes them lean towards publishing like articles, IMHO.

You can reach them at: http://dmnweb.dallasnews.com/us/

Their sidebar had a related story full of statistics, and dammit, had to break it down bt race as well. Thet mention the number of licenses revoked, but didn't say why.
http://dallasnews.com/lifestyles/108006_gunstats09.htmlWho's carrying a gun?

The Texas Department of Public Safety, which administers the Concealed Handgun License program, keeps up-to-date statistics on CHL holders in Texas. Here are some highlights:

As of June 8, 212,382 people have active licenses. Since 1996 the state has revoked 1,053 licenses, suspended 373 licenses and denied 3,035 applications.

Related story
Why I carry
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There are 20,953 license holders in Dallas County, 16,934 in Tarrant County, 5,463 in Collin County and 4,730 in Denton County. The ZIP code 75043, which is in Garland, has the most license holders of any ZIP code in Texas, with 833. ZIP codes near Houston are second and third, followed by 75150 in Mesquite, with 755, and 75052 in Grand Prairie, with 753.

Ages of license holders range from the minimum age of 21 (206 people) to 97 (one person). The most common age is 53 (7,014 people).

Just over four-fifths of all license holders, 171,054, are men. The 41,328 women comprise 19.4 percent of the total.

More than 91 percent of license holders - 194,581 people - are classified as white, a category that also includes Hispanics. Nearly 4.5 percent, or 9,436 people, are black, and 1.3 percent, or 2,833 people, are Asian. The remainder are classified as multiracial, American Indian, Alaskan native, other or unknown.

- Michael Precker

(c)2000 The Dallas Morning News
 
I like the fact, that unlike the *&* spokesman, gun enthusiast (those interviewed) were not all sporting muscle, nascar t-shirts with gun racks.
 
By my math, the rate of CCW revocation/suspension in TX is incredibly low.... statistically insignificant. This fact is often omitted/denied by those who predicted that with "shall issue" laws there would be shootouts over parking spaces. Whether CCW laws reduce crime is still hotly debated, but those with them are above average in law-abiding behavior, it it clear.
 
That's a breath of fresh air, even though we already knew these things :).

Notice the placement of the trigger fingers in all the gun photos - right where they should be.

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I don't like the CHL articles, even when they are pro-gun.

CHL "priveleges" survive because those who would resent them either don't know about them or forget about them.

Anti-gun people are trying to capture the MAJORITY who dislike "sitting next to someone with a gun at the movie theater" as the HCI site puts it. Since the guns are concealed they can forget about it. Making people fearful of those around them being armed (due to fearmongering or just awareness that hte guns are all around them) may rally them to vote based on a repeal of CHL laws.


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