Written by C.D. Michel 

In 1988, when Florida first considered passing a shall-issue concealed carry permitting (CCW) law, gun control groups hysterically predicted massive public bloodshed and shoot-outs in the streets. But nothing like their dire predictions has ever happened. In fact, after Florida civilians were allowed to legally carry guns in public for self-defense, certain categories of violence plummeted. For example, in the first five years after Florida allowed concealed carry, murders went down 21%, while nationally they rose 9%.

As many other states followed Florida’s lead and also started issuing licenses to carry, crime rates began to subside nationally.

Except that is, in Washington D.C. where guns were completely banned and no carry was allowed. Murders there soared 26% over the same period that Florida’s murder rate fell 21%.

Opposite reactions.

Washington D.C. and U.S. murder rates after Heller
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Twenty years later... http://www.calgunlaws.com/give-em-heller/