Gun deaths rising in Iowa as new law removes handgun permits

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Want to wager that they don’t start trending down? We have introduced new legislation on a annual basis making ownership and possession easier. The trend line is upwards.

The trend would be up with no change in the law. Gun sales skyrocket every time a Dem is elected POTUS. Gun sales skyrocketed with the civil unrest last year, and Dems started saying defund the police. Gun sales were rising, at a lesser pace, anyway.

We can revisit this in a year or two to determine cause and effect.

 

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I don't think so either but look where the progression of CC by our population has taken us.

Under May Issue if you had a good valid reason to carry you were vetted by someone local and in most situations you got your permit. How much gun crime did we have at that time?

Fast forward to Shall Issue and the need for reason went out the window and so did the vetting except for violations which would exclude you from being issued a permit. Did gun crime go down? Why not? It was easier to put more "good guys with a gun" on the street.

Fast forward to No Permit Required. Gone is all proactive restriction on anyone carrying. Instead we have an honor system in place that you are responsible to NOT carry if you have any violations or conditions that would exclude you from carrying. Do you think gun crime will go down? I doubt it but time will tell.

I predict we are more likely to just be giving ammunition to the people and their political leaders who feel no one should be able to CC and look to abolish it.

Going back 150 yrs to the wild west could be the death of CC to the responsible gun owners/carriers.

You say you don't think they're the problem but then start offering explanations on when they became the problem.
We have just gone through a once in out lifetime pandemic where people were facing lockdowns for the first time. We also were enduring the biggest ass hat that we have ever put into the White House and the political division from that. Add in the civil unrest and we have a perfect storm for an increase in violence. Keep in mind also that over all violence is way down from where it was in the 1970's when conceal carry was unheard of in the US.

I get, you want more training for conceal carry. Using an increase in violence to prove that it is needed, before the damn law even goes into affect is ridiculous. nearly half the states now allow permitless carry, many for years. If the lack of permits were the problem, it would have happened long ago, state by state.