With the expansion of Constitutional Carry legislation, it would be interesting to do the analysis across all the States and counties, taking into consideration demographics. Demographics are the #1 factor in the homicide rate, for example. Not the access to firearms or strict infringements. Not even poverty. When you combine lack of fathers in the home and demographics, you have a recipe for very high homicide and crime rates:
The thing that jumped out at me immediately was the weird, very remote counties in the Western US. I’ve been all over these States and don’t remember any concentrations of people out there. Look at the pink areas in UT, WY, MT, and SD. I wondered what the heck was going on in those places, because it’s not just snap shots, but year-over-year. A few homicides in a remote county could make it spike on a map one year, then go back to zero for a few years and look like another remote county with the same population, but they still trend with more frequent murders.
Then I found this map and voila, it’s like an overlay:
For the US Deep South, simply look at the county demographics and you will see extremely high percentages of blacks in those high homicide rate counties. When I was in NC, I had to clear leather quite often whereas I’ve never had to in Utah other than for a rattlesnake. Never had to in Colorado either and I was on the road every single day, 6 days a week when I lived there.
I’m still interested in the changes, if any, based on Constitutional Carry. I’m not judging anyone, just noticing facts that can’t be dismissed. If I was a Tribal Native American whose ancestors originally lived on the East Coast or around the Mississippi where all the stuff is green, crops grow well, plenty of things to hunt and fish, then was stuck off living in the middle of nowhere in a hot, dry, high desert with a firewater convenience store, I wonder how my standard of living would be compared to what it is.
Same for a black kid in the projects with a 57yr-old great grandma, 43yr-old grandma, 31yr-old mom who all are collecting welfare, who have a bunch of kids from different baby daddies in and out of prison, never to be seen again/rarely, and I’m 11-17yrs old with no father. I’m going to feel cheated at life, and try to fill that void with something, namely other kids like me who are looking to get into some action. The LBJ/Democrat welfare state they created has destroyed these families and has cost this Nation immeasurably, including many innocent lives ended, and better lives never realized where they really should have been.
The truth doesn’t fit into any clean, partisan packages, though the Conservative American principles would have prevented this had they been adhered to.