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…