2nd day of open carry in Texas. Still no incidents in entire state. Meanwhile, at least 3 homicides in city of Chicago. (deaths, racist)

[katzpaw]

Originally Posted by freightshaker

Would you like to see the posts that were made in this forum by the anti gun crowd that were crowing how Texas would be a bloodbath due to the passage of open carry?

Sure.

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by katzpaw

Why do you make stuff up? There have been gun homicides in Texas this year.

Robbery leads to deadly shooting inside Houston restaurant

NORTH TEXAS STUDENT, 20, DIES AFTER NEW YEAR'S SHOOTING

They were not CCL holders, or carrying open. Neither one.

[Goodnight]

Comparing a state to a city, makes sense. Texas has a higher gun murder rate than Illinois (Chicago is a city in that state), so the obvious solution is open carry.


Give it some time maybe more than 2 days, thank you Texas for volunteering for this experiment.

[freightshaker]

Originally Posted by katzpaw

Sure.

Here is a thread for your reading enjoyment. There are others available.

texas senate passes open carry

[Ringo1]

Originally Posted by neko_mimi

And how were those a result of open-carry?

Your original post didn't say one thing about open carry.

Originally Posted by katzpaw

How many in Chicago were a result of open carry? Why are you selectively comparing open-carry only homicides in Texas to all gun homicides in Chicago?

Selective moving of the goal posts.

[katzpaw]

Originally Posted by Goodnight

Comparing a state to a city, makes sense. Texas has a higher gun murder rate than Illinois (Chicago is a city in that state), so the obvious solution is open carry.


Give it some time maybe more than 2 days, thank you Texas for volunteering for this experiment.

Open carry is supposed to make a country safer (good guy with a gun and all that). So Texas' murder rate in 2016 should go down and be lower than Illinois not higher. We shall see.

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by Goodnight

Comparing a state to a city, makes sense. Texas has a higher gun murder rate than Illinois (Chicago is a city in that state), so the obvious solution is open carry.


Give it some time maybe more than 2 days, thank you Texas for volunteering for this experiment.

Overall...
Let us try per capita.


Murder rate Illinois 2014: 5.3 per 100,000
Murder rate Texas 2014: 4.4 per 100,000

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murd...ally-and-state

[mm4]

Originally Posted by Goodnight

Texas has a higher gun murder rate than Illinois....

That is simply not true.


Illinois: 439 gun homicides
pop. 12.88 million
3.41 per 100,000

California: 1,304 gun homicides
pop. 38.33 million
3.4 per 100,000

New Jersey: 273 gun homicides
pop. 8.899 million
3.07 per 100,000

Texas: 745 gun homicides
pop. 26.45 million
2.82 per 100,000

New York: 407 gun homicides
pop. 19.7 million
2.07 per 100,000
(The State of New York's gun laws are more like Vermont's outside of NYC.)

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr...apons_2012.xls

Population figures are 2013.

[neko_mimi]

Originally Posted by Ringo1

Your original post didn't say one thing about open carry.

I guess you didn't read the title.

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Originally Posted by J.Thomas

No man that's not a fair comparison.

How can you compare TX to a war zone??

Houston and Dallas have very little to brag about on the topic of violent crime and homicides.