From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Wed May 26 1999 - 23:49:26 MDT
At 06:38 PM 5/26/99 -0500, Joe Dees wrote:
>The chances are small that any particular person will be packing,
>so the criminal is quite willing to play the odds (are or you gonna
>tell us that the intrepid concealed carriers among us have rendered
>us crime free?).
Only a tiny percentage of the population is composed of violent criminals.
Probability dictates that even if only a small percentage of the population
carries, it creates a significant selection pressure on the criminal
population (do the math; while the percentages are small, there is a huge
increase in actual risk to the criminal). This isn't just theoretical;
there is *a lot* of real world evidence strongly suggesting the validity of
the math.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
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