Since Constitutional Carry has been in the news a bit, I thought his post was interesting for the "This is dangerous" crowd. GUN WATCH: Justified Homicides in Indianapolis Double after Constitutional Carry
After Constitutional Carry went into effect in Indiana, the number of non-criminal homicides in Indianapolis doubled.
Allowing law-abiding people more freedom to defend themselves, results in few murders. At least in Indianapolis.
The definition:
Non-criminal homicides include defense of self and others, homicides by police and fatal firearms accidents. Fatal firearm accidents are a tiny percentage of all fatalities associated with firearms. A proportion of them are self inflicted, and can be confused with suicides.
Constitutional Carry went into effect the first of July, 2022.
In 2021, there were 271 homicides in Indianapolis. 249 were recorded as criminal. 22 of them were non-criminal. ... In 2023, the first year the law was fully in effect, there were 216 total homicides. 171 were criminal. 45 of them were non-criminal.
Click thru for more data, links to the Indianapolis Police Department statistics, and more commentary.
Now some of this may be attributable to the law of small numbers. 22 is not a large number, but going from 249 criminal homicides to 171, is a bit harder to argue. Though you can bet that if that number increased instead of decreased, the gun control crowd would have been screaming about how the Sky Is Falling.
The terminology that was used (a few years ago at least) by the FBI for crime reporting is "murders, and non-negligent homicides." All murders are homicides, but not all homicides are murders. Negligent homicide is basically an accident, though someone may be held accountable if they were behaving like an idiot.
One of the things I have tried to do with this blog is provide some data, mostly around self-defense, to combat the anti-gun "that never happens" narrative. It seems like debunking some myths around Constitutional Carry would also be a good thing.
And if you haven't seen the news out of North Carolina, the legislature is considering overriding the governor's veto of Constitutional Carry.
Your mission to catalog statistically valid data is commendable. Others, including the FBI, also compile the data.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that the anti-gunners will use data only when it supports their position, or can be massaged to support their position. Elsewise, the data is ignored. But memorializing the provable raw data is a winning ticket. The kind of data which cannot be misconstrued or ignored. It is a worthy task.
I don't know about commendable. I like to argue. (It's a family thing... family dinners would have multiple arguments all going on at once) And if the armed self-defense topic was the subject, then anti-gunners would try to stop the argument with "that never happened" or "you're just lying" about the data.
DeleteSo. I started collecting the stories in one place, with one link, that I could send to them. Which caused them to default to "you're a monster" for winning the argument. Or something.