Originally Posted by
Doohickie
Can you cite a source for those statements?
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/163496.pdf
http://www.nij.gov/nij/topics/crime/...ce/aquired.htm
A study of persons arrested for a wide range of crimes showed that a higher percentage of arrestees than regular citizens own firearms. Arrestees are also more likely to be injured or killed by gun violence. Within a community, this amounts to an identifiable group of "career" offenders.
When I last looked into this subject the most recent data was from 2008. As I said, at that time, the evidence that concealed carry owners were less likely to use their weapon for self-defense was more anecdotal than causal--which is common for most statistical evidence for sociological issues.