To be slightly more precise, you'd have to restrict the non-CHL conviction rate sample to those age 21 and over. I don't know how much it would affect the overall rate, but the ages 15-20 are in the peak years for violent crime (I think the worst overall group is 15-24).frankie_the_yankee wrote:Here's a link to the DPS page where you can access stats on conviction rates of CHL holders.
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/administra ... vrates.htm
If you pull up the page for 2005, you will see that CHL's are convicted at rates that are a small fraction of the overall population. There are 267,000 CHL holders in TX. This is about 2% of the total number of adults. This means that for any crime where the % of TOTAL convictions of CHL's was less than 2% is a crime that CHL's commit LESS OFTEN than the general population.
This includes almost all crimes, and certainly all the most violent ones.
TX CHL holders are peaceable law-abiding citizens. These stats PROVE IT.
Kevin