{"id":89763,"date":"2023-02-02T04:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T10:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89763"},"modified":"2023-02-02T04:25:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T10:25:59","slug":"89763","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89763","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

FACT CHECK: Gavin Newsom Says \u2018Permitless Carry Does Not Make You Safer\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

CLAIM<\/strong>: In the lead-up to his February 1 push for more gun control, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) claimed, \u201cPermitless carry does not make you safer.\u201d<\/p>\n

VERDICT<\/strong>: Partly False.<\/p>\n

On June 7, 2017, Breitbart News\u00a0relayed<\/a>\u00a0FBI data published by the NRA that showed two of the earliest permitless carry states, hereafter called constitutional carry states, were Alaska and Arizona. And both states saw their handgun murders decline when their concealed carry permit requirements were abolished.<\/p>\n

The date showed Alaska\u2019s handgun murder rate \u201cdeclined after the state enacted [constitutional carry] in 2003.\u201d Moreover, in the 14 years between the abolition of the permit requirement and 2017 \u201chandgun murders\u2026declined as a percentage of the total number of murders.\u201d<\/p>\n

A drop in handgun murders also took place in Arizona after that state abolished its concealed carry permit requirement in 2010.<\/p>\n

More recently, the Maine Wire\u00a0noted<\/a>\u00a0that crime fell in Maine after the state abolished its concealed carry permit requirement in 2015.<\/p>\n

FBI data\u00a0shows<\/a>\u00a0violent crime beginning a decline in 2016 that continued through 2020.<\/p>\n

There are currently 25 states with constitutional carry. When there were only 13\u2013Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming\u2013the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC)\u00a0showed<\/a>\u00a0that data from the 13 states showed overall murder numbers fell from 4.49 to 4.31 post-constitutional carry enactment, and that violent crime fell from 331.5 to 318.2.<\/p>\n

But murder levels can vary for a variety of reasons, and CPRC\u2019s John Lott\u00a0explains<\/a>\u00a0some of the numerous factors that are often at play:<\/p>\n

Firearm homicide is not a good measure of the effect of Constitutional Carry laws because murders can be committed with other weapons as well as by hands and fists. Also, gun homicide data include justifiable homicides, including homicides by police in the line of duty. Justifiable homicides are benefits, not costs, and they might understandably increase when more citizens are allowed to defend themselves with guns. The FBI murder rate has neither of these problems and is a better test of the effect of constitutional carry laws. Nevertheless, my analysis finds that Constitutional Carry laws do not increase firearm homicide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It should also be noted that Lott points out that constitutional carry helps to make the poor safer, by making self-defense affordable.<\/p>\n

Lott adds:<\/p>\n

Constitutional Carry will make it easier for poor people, who are the most likely victims of violent crime, to be able to defend themselves and their families. Costs matter; just compare the numbers in neighboring states, Illinois and Indiana. In Illinois, the total cost of getting a five-year permit is $450; there is no license fee in Indiana. While only 4% of Illinoisans have a concealed handgun permit, 22% of adults in Indiana already have one, the second-highest number of permits per capita.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Newsom\u2019s claim is partly false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FACT CHECK: Gavin Newsom Says \u2018Permitless Carry Does Not Make You Safer\u2019 CLAIM: In the lead-up to his February 1 push for more gun control, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) claimed, \u201cPermitless carry does not make you safer.\u201d VERDICT: Partly False. On June 7, 2017, Breitbart News\u00a0relayed\u00a0FBI data published by the NRA that showed two … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89764,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89763\/revisions\/89764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}