This Is What Democracy Looks Like
By Mitch Berg
This animation is an oldie but a goodie. It shows the spread of “shall-issue” laws since the 1980s.
To make it perfect, there should be a “thermometer” showing annual violent crime rates per 100,000.
It’d drop by nearly half in the time covered by the animation, by the way.
July 11th, 2013 at 4:04 pm
Most interesting to me is the spread of “unrestricted” CCW laws and how much that’s taken off recently. That and the fact the New England as a whole was pretty liberal about this civil right even back in the 80s (although Mass. is still a crap-hole to be avoided by anyone who needs to travel through the state – it made it hard for us to organize biathlons in Vermont because nobody wanted to take a chance transiting an expensive rifle through there).
July 12th, 2013 at 12:04 am
And just think basically every state did it on their own without a judge with the exception of maybe Illinois did it with laws being passed and sometimes with judges trying to strike it down.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN