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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: MikeBjerum on March 02, 2015, 11:36:22 PM
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Please bear with me, because I heard these numbers while driving and could not get them written down. I am looking the details up, but don't have them all right now.
Minnesota issued just over 30,000 Permits to Carry a Pistol in 2014. This is down from the record number in 2013. As of now there are over 180,000 Minnesotan's with Minnesota Permit to Carry a Pistol. Of these permit holders there were 1,320 crimes committed. Most of these crimes were DWI and the like. The news story did not say how many firearms related crimes. In fact they did not say a single firearm related crime was committed by a permit holder in 2014. This is a detail I am trying to find, and I will post more details as I find them.
The biggest thing I see is that 0.73% of permit holders were convicted of a crime in 2014. Sounds like we are a pretty dangerous bunch ::)
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So what's the percentage of the general population that committed crimes? You have nothing to compare it to without the comparable number.
Counting DWIs, speeding and the like I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage for all Minnesotan's was higher than 1%.
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Alf, I think that's the part we're supposed to bear with while he finishes his research.
I'm curious to see what the results are.
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Also see what the crime rate for Police Officers was. It is often higher than the general populace.
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i remember seeing a stat a few years back in CA where the general public had a lower conviction rate then law enforcement. I would be very interested in what the break down is too.