Aw, what the heck. I was wrong.
Now I didn’t participate in thread, though I did chuckle at Dio’s provocative remarks:
Did anybody else find those 2 lines hilarious? I sure did. But I digress.
Years ago, I thought the CCW experiment would end badly. I was wrong. So I didn’t participate in this thread: I withheld public judgment because I knew that I had been wrong once and the law seemed to apply more to CCW types than hopped up drunken rednecks with impulse control issues. I privately thought that this might end badly… or might not, given the CCW experience. I would not have liked to place a bet on the matter.
Looking forward, I want 4 additional years of data and a real study. I don’t anticipate the general pattern changing… though it could. It just would be nice to nail down the statistical significance and cull out any unanticipated behavioral patterns.