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gigag04 wrote:UCR stats don't represent the life an avg CHL'er. Many of the agg assaults are family violence. A good number of our robberies are drug deals gone bad. Many of us don't frequent gas stations or ghettos at the wee hours of the morning.

I'd speculate that we are more likely to lock our cars and valuables. We are more situationally aware, and not soft targets.

The OPs question is good, but I don't think the forum would be a depiction of the statewide averages. Also, many of those members are inactive.

I haven't gone for a gun in an off duty capacity this year. I did arm bar a guy out of a bar in Austin that was wrestling with the bouncer.

Not to hijack the thread, but gigag04's comment is spot on with regard to using average crime stats as a forecast. It goes to what that Gandalf fella kept harping on over in the campus carry discussion... "conditional probabilities". The crime stats suggest an average rate of violent crime for a particular metropolitan area. But the real probability of your being a victim is conditional on your age, your occupation, what parts of town you frequent, what time of the day or night you are out, etc. A 19 year old drug dealer in downtown Bryan after midnight has a much higher-than-average probability of encountering violence, while a middle aged, risk averse home-body like me has a much lower-than-average probability.