Concealed weapons in bars: Gun crime drops

[_bcspace]

Gun crimes drop at Virginia bars and restaurants

Virginia'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.

[_Morley]

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[_bcspace]

Non sequitur. Next.

[_Morley]

Non sequitur. Next.

To what do you attribute higher US violent crime rates?

[_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.