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WA Democrats move to ban open, concealed carry of a firearm at 5,300+ locations
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this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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Im done. You seem to think every cc person is going to be the equivalent if the next despite we just loosened the standard.
Go look at the RAND 2020 study if you actually have the educational background in social science to read it. It's well done and not surprisingly concludes the more people with guns on them means you will see more crimes committed by people carrying guns.
What "standard" do you think is being loosened for licensure?
Again, Oregon is not a constitutional carry state. They are a shall issue state, and have been since 1989.
For your argument to make sense (and be relevant to this discussion), Oregonians would have to be significantly more likely to commit violent crime than the people of the the 29 "constitutional carry" states that don't even require licensure.
But they aren't.
Nor are the citizens of the 8 "may issue" states particularly dangerous either.
The reality is that the "undesirables will get guns" argument has a long and unsavory history, but no basis in fact.
reread my first sentence and then ask why you replied
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