Recently, one of my neighbors was acquitted in a federal criminal trial. The jury considered four charges: one count of conspiracy to defraud the government by impairing the calculation or collection of tax, and three counts of wilfully aiding the filing of amended income tax returns which were false with respect to a material matter….
Just to see if there’s an easy parallel to the More Guns Less Crime argument, I decided to compare the concealed carry permit issue rate to homicide rates. I found the California Dept of Justice’s page of homicide statistics per county per year. Turns out the five counties with the worst homicide rates in 2003…
I happened to notice that the California Dept of Justice’s Firearms Division has placed online a report listing, by county, the number of concealed handgun permits issued during the period 1990-2003. I thought it would be interesting to compare the issue rates by population – so I found some census population estimates by county, and…