Starting today, concealed carry licenses will be good on college campuses. Leftist professors and students are clutching their pearls. Given Their Fear of Guns, How Have Professors Ever Gone Off Campus? by John R. Lott, Jr.
Montana isn't the first state to allow this. And it isn't the first state where predictions of gloom and doom were made.
One wonders if left-leaning professors and college students in a state like Montana feel safe going off campus. Whether they go to a restaurant, movie theater, or grocery store, they are very likely to find themselves next to someone who is legally carrying a gun.
But seven percent of Montanans already possess concealed handgun permits, and students and faculty somehow manage to leave campus.
Seven percent of people in Montana have concealed carry licenses. I don't know if I think that number is high or low for a state like Montana. (According to numbers from the Ohio Attorney General and the 2019 Ohio population estimate from the Census Bureau, the number is not quite six percent for Ohio.)
Go read the whole thing. Hat tip to Crime Prevention Research Center.
Here is a link to the Ohio Concealed Carry permit numbers.
ReplyDeleteBeen more than 20 years since I lived in Montana, but I think the only people who worried about "carry permits" were those would be carrying anyway, but might encounter questions as to why they were heeled in certain areas.
ReplyDeleteAnd this was in a city (Great Falls), not the toolies out beyond the High Line or bear and cougar country.
10% in Pennsylvania
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