gunlaws.com
https://www.thetrace.org/2017/05/states-gun-crime-gotten-worse-since-1990s/
As of 2017, 1 in 20 Ohioans were CHL holders.
In states that have Constitutional Carry, the violent and gun crime rates are essentially the same as states that do not have Constitutional Carry.
New Permits: Active Permits:
2017 - 77,281 2017 - 623,000
2016 - 117,953 2016 - 574,000
The average “time to crime”, the time between the retail sale of a firearm and its use in a crime is eleven years. A firearm can change hands and travel far in six years.
The national five-day waiting period under the Brady Bill had no impact on murder or robbery. In fact, there was a slight increase in rape and aggravated assault, indicating no effective suppression of certain violent crimes. Thus, for two crime categories, a possible effect was to delay law-abiding citizens from getting a gun for protection. The risks were greatest for crimes against women.
60% of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they knew the victim was armed. 40% of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they thought the victim might be armed.
74% of felons agreed that, “One reason burglars avoid houses when people are at home is that they fear being shot during the crime.”
57% of felons polled agreed, “Criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police.”
93% of guns used in crimes are obtained illegally (i.e., not at gun stores or gun shows). 80% of these illegally obtained guns were obtained through illegal purchase on the street or through straw purchase by a friend or family.
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CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY:
No tests. No taxes. No paperwork. No fingerprints in the criminal database. No photographs. No expiration dates. No plastic-coated permission slip. Just rights. For all law-abiding adults. Train because it's right, not state mandated.
States that already have Constitutional Carry and when adopted:
Vermont - 1791
Montana - 1991
Alaska - 2003
Arizona - 2010
Wyoming - 2011
Arkansas - 2013
Kansas - 2015
West Virginia - 2016
Idaho - 2016
Mississippi - 2016
Missouri - 2017
New Hampshire - 2017
North Dakota - 2017
If you study this chart, it seems to be indicating that the overwhelming majority of the states that moved towards or adopted Constitutional Carry had significant drops in Gun Homicide rates.
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Every person has a right to be secure in their person and their property. We call for the repeal of all Ohio laws which restrict the right to keep and bear arms. We demand enactment of “Constitutional carry”, open or concealed, including the end of all licensing and all other restrictions on our natural right to defend ourselves.
Overwhelmingly, studies have shown that there is no correlation between gun ownership and violent crime. The opposite is true. In 2016, there were 654 murders and 34,000 violent crimes, but an estimated 79,000 instances of defensive gun use. The hard truth is that it would be impossible to accurately measure defensive gun use because not every instance is reported.
The Supreme Court recently ruled that sharing the blueprints for gun parts to be printed on a 3D printer is constitutionally protected free speech. This is an acknowledgement that with current technology, gun control is ineffective and impossible to enforce. Violent criminals don’t follow laws by nature.
Laws designed to restrict different types of guns from public ownership take guns away from nonviolent residents, or worse, in many cases, arbitrarily reclassify firearms and label their owners as felons for no reason.
If we want to get literal with the second amendment, every background check, every Concealed Handgun License, every mandatory training, is some form of an infringement. Every regulation on the types of firearms, magazine capacities and the like are already infringements. No more infringements.
