March 28 - At least 508 people, including 14 law enforcement
officers, have been killed since May 2007 in incidents not ruled
self-defense involving private citizens legally allowed to carry
concealed handguns according to the March update of the Violence Policy
Center's (VPC) Concealed Carry Killers on-line resource (http://www.vpc.org/ccwkillers.htm).
Because no comprehensive data exists on such non-self defense killings,
the victims in Concealed Carry Killers are just examples taken from
news reports and the limited state data available of the unknown,
untabulated number of similar incidents that routinely occur across the
nation.
VPC Legislative Director Kristen Rand states, “The evidence is
mounting that concealed carry permit holders perpetrate more crime than
they prevent. Comprehensive data should be collected and released to the
public so that the effect on public safety of issuing licenses to carry
loaded handguns in public is measured by fact and not by the rhetoric
of permit proponents.”
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