Interesting....of 400,000+ Texas CHL holders in 2009, 101 were convicted of various crimes. 25 per 100,000.
72% of Texas' total population is 18 years of age and over - roughly 18,000,000 souls. There were 65,000 criminal convictions in 2009. That's about 360 convictions per 100,000. If my math is right.
25/100,000 is significantly less than 360/100,000 by anyone's standards.
Could we then say that an innocent person would be 14 times more likely to be a victim of a crime from the general adult population than they would be from a CHL holder?
Couldn't find the 21 & over age breakdown, so that could be off by a few percentage points.
Sounds like CHLs are a much more law-abiding group to me than the general population.
Seriously though, I ain't a stat guy & am not sure how that works, so would somebody please correct me if this is all bull?
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- Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:02 am
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Re: Hou Chron article today on Campus Carry
I was debating this very topic on another board where the "antis" were expressing the same fears. I used Census & DPS data to post this rebuttal: