Thu
Feb 28 2013
09:07 am
By: WhitesCreek
The AP...looked at public records and found that 2,133 people have had their permits revoked or suspended for criminal charges or orders of protection over the last two years. Handgun permit owners have killed or been accused of killing at least 16 people in the past five years-four people in parking lots.
So that works out to over 1000 people a year who get concealed carry permits who shouldn't have them, but for a while they do...
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What percentage of the total of handgun permit holders is that 2,133 number?
The four killed in parking lots, what was the final outcome? Self defense? Just plain mean? Thought they were in Dodge City?
Numbers without the additional data does not tell the story.