{"id":60056,"date":"2016-08-23T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60056"},"modified":"2016-08-23T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T17:01:59","slug":"better-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60056","title":{"rendered":"Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study shows carry carry permittees\u00a0are, per capita, <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/report-finds-these-gun-owners-are-least-likely-criminals-17355\">far and away the safest demographic in the United States <\/a>as far as firearm crime is concerned:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The study refers to Texas and Florida, which it says mirror most other states, to compare permit holders with police and the overall population. It used data from 1987 through 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe find that permit holders are convicted of misdemeanors and felonies at less than a sixth the rate for police officers,\u201d the report says. \u201cAmong police, firearms violations occur at a rate of 16.5 per 100,000 officers. Among permit holders in Florida and Texas, the rate is only 2.4 per 100,000.10. That is just one-seventh of the rate for police officers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, if you read this blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5358\">you knew this years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Minnesota, which has a higher rate of carry\u00a0permitting and lower crime rates that both Texas and Florida- with precisely one unjustifiable homicide committed by carry permittees in 13 years &#8211;\u00a0the comparison is even more lopsided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study shows carry carry permittees\u00a0are, per capita, far and away the safest demographic in the United States as far as firearm crime is concerned: The study refers to Texas and Florida, which it says mirror most other states, to compare permit holders with police and the overall population. It used data from 1987 through 2015. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60056"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60066,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60056\/revisions\/60066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}