Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Second Amendment and the statistics the media scrupulously avoid


‘.00672 Percent’: Why Concealed Carry Permit Holders Will Want to Hear About Such a Small Number From a Former Navy SEAL


0.00672 percent.
It may seem small, but according to former Navy SEAL Dom Raso, who’s also an NRA commentator, that number makes a big difference for concealed carry permit holders, especially in Florida.
“Since 1987, the state of Florida has issued 2.5 million concealed-carry permits,” Raso says in hislatest opinion piece for the NRA News network. “Of those, only 168 people have committed firearms crimes. That’s .00672 percent of the total amount issued.”*
(Source: NRA News screen shot)
(Source: NRA News screen shot)
Raso’s point is part of a larger message to businesses: if you make your establishment a “gun free” zone, you’re actually endangering yourself and your customers, as well as making yourself a target. Permit holders, he says, “are the last people you should be trying to keep out of your business.” Watch the latest video below:
*The original video had a slight miscalculation that expressed the fraction as a percent. The correct percentage is .00672, not .0000672 percent.

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