Guns in bars

[Bricker]

@Measure_for_Measure

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.

It’s been four years since the law passed.

So far, the trend is holding steady.

Of course, you said four additional years, so I guess we need to wait until 2015?

But the chances for an explosion of violence seem… small.