Concealed Carry Permits Are Life Savers

[ericire12]

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30405

According to a study by criminologist Gary Kleck of Florida State University, “[R]obbery and assault victims who used a gun to resist were less likely to be attacked or to suffer an injury than those who used any other methods of self-protection or those who did not resist at all.” In approximately 2.5 million instances each year, someone uses a firearm, predominantly a handgun, for self defense in this nation. 

In research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, in which almost 2,000 felons were interviewed, 34% of felons said they had been “scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim" and 40% of these criminals admitted that they had been deterred from committing a crime out of fear that the potential victim was armed.

Allowing law-abiding people to arm themselves offers more than piece of mind for those individuals -- it pays off for everybody through lower crime rates.  Statistics from the FBI’s Uniformed Crime Report of 2007 show that states with right-to-carry laws have a 30% lower homicide rate, 46% lower robbery, and 12% lower aggravated assault rate and a 22% lower overall violent crime rate than do states without such laws.  That is why more and more states have passed right-to-carry laws over the past decade. 

In 1987, my home state of Florida enacted a “shall issue” law that has become the model for other states. Anti-gun groups, politicians and the news media predicted the new law would lead to vigilante justice and “Wild West” shootouts on every corner.

But since adopting a concealed carry law Florida’s total violent crime rate has dropped 32% and its homicide rate has dropped 58%. Floridians, except for criminals, are safer due to this law. And Florida is not alone. Texas’ violent crime rate has dropped 20% and homicide rate has dropped 31%, since enactment of its 1996 carry law.

A report by John Lott, Jr. and David Mustard of the University of Chicago released in 1996 found "that allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths."  Further, the Lott-Mustard study noted, "If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate assaults would have been avoided yearly." 

Should your natural right to self defense and your Constitutional right to bear arms end when you cross a state line?  I think not.
 
That is why I, along with Representative Rich Boucher (D-Va.) introduced H.R. 197, the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act.

TAB, your rebuttal?


*Can we all send some emails downrange and light up the inboxes of our representatives? We need to let them know that we want H.R. 197 passed
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h197/show

Authorizes a person who has a valid permit to carry a concealed firearm in one state and who is not prohibited from carrying a firearm under federal law to carry a concealed firearm in another state in accordance with the restrictions of that state or as specified under this Act.

[Texas_Bryan]

As much as I don't like nationalizing something, the CCP being nationally standardized could be very good.  Except when the federal government decides to remove the right to carry, then we won't have the states to protect us.

[PegLeg45]

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:1:./temp/~c111Swdagw::

[ericire12]

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:1:./temp/~c111Swdagw::

this maybe?
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/thomas

[PegLeg45]

this maybe?
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/thomas

Hell, neither one works for me now.....??


EDIT:

National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2009 (Introduced in House)

HR 197 IH

111th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 197

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a national standard in accordance with which nonresidents of a State may carry concealed firearms in the State.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 6, 2009

Mr. STEARNS (for himself and Mr. BOUCHER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a national standard in accordance with which nonresidents of a State may carry concealed firearms in the State.

      Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

      This Act may be cited as the `National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2009'.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL STANDARD FOR THE CARRYING OF CERTAIN CONCEALED FIREARMS BY NONRESIDENTS.

      (a) In General- Chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 926C the following:

`Sec. 926D. National standard for the carrying of certain concealed firearms by nonresidents

      `(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the law of any State or political subdivision thereof, a person who is not prohibited by Federal law from possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm and is carrying a valid license or permit which is issued by a State and which permits the person to carry a concealed firearm (other than a machinegun or destructive device) may carry in another State a concealed firearm (other than a machinegun or destructive device) that has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce, subject to subsection (b).

      `(b)(1) If such other State issues licenses or permits to carry concealed firearms, the person may carry a concealed firearm in the State under the same restrictions which apply to the carrying of a concealed firearm by a person to whom the State has issued such a license or permit.

      `(2) If such other State does not issue licenses or permits to carry concealed firearms, the person may not, in the State, carry a concealed firearm in a police station, in a public detention facility, in a courthouse, in a public polling place, at a meeting of a State, county, or municipal governing body, in a school, at a professional or school athletic event not related to firearms, in a portion of an establishment licensed by the State to dispense alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, or inside the sterile or passenger area of an airport, except to the extent expressly permitted by State law.'.

      (b) Clerical Amendment- The table of sections for such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 926C the following:

            `926D. National standard for the carrying of certain concealed firearms by nonresidents.'.

[Sponsor]

[TAB]

That bill will never pass, even if it does dozens of states will challenge it and it will be thrown out.

[CurrieS103]

Then we keep trying until it does pass.

[TAB]

Then we keep trying until it does pass.

wait so you want something to pass, knowing that it will be struck down?

[tombogan03884]

That bill will never pass, even if it does dozens of states will challenge it and it will be thrown out.

If it gets shot down ,it will be because people like YOU let it.

[Pathfinder]

Besides, bho would never sign it.