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Concealed weapons in bars: Gun crime drops
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:29 pm
by _bcspace
Gun crimes drop at Virginia bars and restaurantsVirginia's bars and restaurants did not turn into shooting galleries as some had feared during the first year of a new state law that allows patrons with permits to carry concealed guns into alcohol-serving businesses, a Richmond Times-Dispatch analysis found.
The number of major crimes involving firearms at bars and restaurants statewide declined 5.2 percent from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, compared with the fiscal year before the law went into effect, according to crime data compiled by Virginia State Police at the newspaper's request.
Re: Concealed weapons in bars: Gun crime drops
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:44 pm
by _Morley
Re: Concealed weapons in bars: Gun crime drops
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:48 pm
by _bcspace
Non sequitur. Next.
Re: Concealed weapons in bars: Gun crime drops
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:52 pm
by _Morley
bcspace wrote:Non sequitur. Next.
To what do you attribute higher US violent crime rates?
Re: Concealed weapons in bars: Gun crime drops
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:00 am
by _moksha
I think I understand Bc's reasoning. People who are rationally impaired due to alcohol consumption are by the very presence of such weapons made much more prudent. I believe that also holds true with stabbings with knives, broken bottles and concealed swords in canes.
