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To: Road Walker who wrote (334273)	4/19/2007 5:57:40 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572284

I looked for the stats on how many people regularly carry but couldn't find any. Even if I could such stats would have to be estimates, not hard data. I imagine that in areas where carry is permited, within states with "shall issue" concealed carry permits (or states like Alaska that require no permit for concealed carry) that more than one in 200 people reguarly carries. <And of course you didn't answer the question on how many people would die of rage shooting and accidents if 1 in 100 people were packing>. Because if one in 100 or one in 200 are already packing you would already have that level of rage shootings and accidents. It wouldn't be an increase. In any case the safety record for CCP holders is pretty good. I've already posted about the low level of crimes (which would include rage shootings) from those holders. For more on that issue - "In Florida, where 315,000 permits have been issued, there are only five known instances of violent gun crime by a person with a permit. This makes a permit-holding Floridian the cream of the crop of law-abiding citizens, 840 times less likely to commit a violent firearm crime than a randomly selected Floridian without a permit. " davekopel.com Also see utahshootingsports.com