Almost eight years ago a republican governor in Michigan named John Engler (R) passed a law securing for Michigan citizens the right to carry concealed firearms on their person for defensive purposes and to better secure their right to defend themselves.
Eight years later and looking back, what was the effect of this? The following article examines the situation in hindsight:
"Researchers believe that if holdout states had adopted concealed-carry, it’s possible that they could have avoided annually as many as 1,570 murders, more than 4,000 rapes and some 60,000 aggravated assaults. The statisticians point out that when Right-to-Carry laws have been put in place, individual counties have experienced an 8.5 per-cent drop in murder rates, a 5 percent reduction in rapes as well as a 7 percent decline in aggravated assaults."
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Anonymous2008-04-18 18:10
That gun is phallic, sperm flying everywhere
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Anonymous2008-04-18 21:03
GUNCUM FLYING EVERYWHERE
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Anonymous2008-04-19 1:49
LOL @ faggot states like commiefornia and the People's republic of New York that still don't have concealed carry.
>>7
But that's the point. They're keeping their essentially crime-free town to themselves, since they're keeping your stupid, stealing ass OUT OF IT. And if you do decide to move in an start some shit? Well, you'll get shot. End of fucking story.
Like I said: Enjoy your overrun Liberal big-city garbage crime mess. I hope your take-home pay is worth all the robberies and burglaries and layoffs and taxes you'll have to endure. Robberies, burglaries, layoffs, taxes, insurance and all the rest of it is just too fucking expensive. Why do you think people are enduring murderous commutes? They're trying to secure high city wages without suffering all the crime and disease and low culture of the same cityscape.
>>11 MEGA-LOL. There's nothing more paranoid than a pack of fucking yuppie Liberal Democrats trying to pass every law they can think of to make everyone in their urban area "arrestable" at any time for most things they do.
Your "post-historic" urban areas are not places worth living in. You're surrounded by chemicals which assault your DNA, and concrete that you can't grow food on. It's post-modern and in-FUCKING-Human. It's more fail laid on top of decades of existing fail, all to made a firm foundation of fail for the next generation of mega-fail.
P.S. Faggotry is far more likely in urban areas. DUH.
Haha libfag got OWNED. Nice job RedCream, I lol'd a lot.
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Anonymous2008-04-23 3:17
>>9
Thanks to our democrat controlled legislature and democrat governor who INSISTS upon raising taxes.
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Anonymous2008-04-23 5:28
>>12
I urge you to go back to a cave to improve your livelihood then, less KEMIKALZ WICH ASSALT UR DIYENEY, less crime, and less intellectual thought, all of which should be good for you. And hey, it's somehow more human according to your retarded logic.
>>14
How does being completely retarded feel, I mean, not only being unable to formulate any thought, but also needing to suck cocks constantly as a part of your existence?
>>16
YOU'RE SO FAILFUL THAT IT'S PAINFUL TO WATCH. There is NO valid reason to juxtapose urban living with CAVE living. You're only betraying your narrow world view of all-urban, all-the-time. More rural modes of living are indeed highly desirable.
Using your own land for your own and productive purposes is the very definition of HUMAN. In contrast, enjoy your taxes, crime, chemicals, and monstrous set of laws that have made you a law-breaker about a dozen times each day.
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Anonymous2008-04-23 16:14
>>17
Wow, living in a shitty run down hicktown in the middle of nowhere shooting intruders is more human than an urban cityscape according to your pathetic "logic" which is just a pathetic attempt for rationalizing living in an ass-backwards shithole. Enjoy your denial and primitiveness.
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Anonymous2008-04-23 18:43
>>18
I'd rather be able to shoot them than keep some extra vaseline on hand like you 'civilized' libfags have to.
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Anonymous2008-04-23 19:11
>>18
How 'bout I ram the 2nd Amendment up your asshole while smashing your face in with the butt of my AR-15?
Living in the city is fun when you're young, but like you, it gets old. A smaller town within shooting distance of the local metropolitan area is the place to be when you're older, and actually know anything about anything. RedCream is a gigantic faggot but his point here is apt. APT!
Moreover, as the internet saturates the physical environment, there's less and less reason to actually be in a city.
>>18
Again, you propagandist twitfuck, living in a more rural area does NOT mean a run down hickville. Suburban living itself was an attempt to enjoy rural mores without being subject to urban faggotry and fail. More rural modes of living just take the suburban model and extend it. Millions have done it, and enjoy spectacularly low crime rates in exchange.
And you city folks keep cowering in fear of ANYBODY with a gun. You city folk live like fucking cockroaches, so I guess it makes sense that you fear the jostling masses. ENJOY LIVING IN FEAR. All your fears produce a Liberal- and Democrat-dominated Fear Society that essentially manufactures crooks. You live in a hive of horror. You're taxed and poisoned. YOU LIVE IN HELL.
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Anonymous2008-04-24 4:25
ITT: Lots of butthurt rage from retards living in Yemenesque conditions, trying to justify their condition with pathetically stupid apologetics.
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Anonymous2008-04-24 6:59
"There's nothing more paranoid than a pack of fucking yuppie Liberal Democrats trying to pass every law they can think of to make everyone in their urban area "arrestable" at any time for most things they do."
Too fucking true. RedCream is the winner.
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Anonymous2008-04-24 7:03
ITT lots of bitter butthurt libfags who forgot the extra vaseline and are actually jealous of the crime-free lives and low taxes that rural people enjoy.
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Anonymous2008-04-24 12:10
>>25
What crime? Sorry, I don't live in your retarded country. So, please, keep up trying to justify living in stone age with tools those city people gave you, it's amusing.
Why do so many liberal heterosexuals engage in homosexual relationships with black men and dress all "metrosexual"?
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Anonymous2008-04-24 15:12
I thought LETS LIVE WITH NATUREE, FORGET CITIES AND STUFF, LETS LIVE IN WOODS was hippie bullshit, but apparently retarded neocons too like it because they're too scared to go outside in a city. Understandable, of course - if I was that fat and weak too, I'd like to live in a place where no one could see me and no one could touch me.
>>26
What crime? The fucking crime that infects the insect-like masses of urbanites in American cities. THAT QUANTITY OF CRIME. What, are you just going to pretend as if all that crime isn't there? Rural Americans are now howling at your fucking denial. Keep blotting out perfectly true reality, cupcake. Blot, blot, blot. You must be a You're A-Peein', AMIRITE? Filthy Euroshitweed.
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Anonymous2008-04-24 19:46
>>29
I see that living in a backwater hicktown wasn't good on your reading skills. Especially the part about not living in your retarded country, but if you like to go on with your whining and denial about being simply too scared and incapable of living an urban life, see this >>28 too
>>33
If you carry a concealed firearm you do not need to worry about being mugged.
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Anonymous2008-05-10 9:35
Enjoy using hidden christian magic to explain all your lifes problems and successes. . .
Also no real people live in hick towns. Only corn, incest and illegal imigrant workers. Top Gear proved that.
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Anonymous2008-05-10 10:16
>>36
They can't understand what you're saying, they're half-vegetables...
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Anonymous2008-05-10 19:29
DERP DERP DERP DA WORLD ENDS AT DA MANHATTAN BURRAH LIMITS, DERE AINT NUTTIN OUTSIDE UNLESS MAYBE YA COUNT KALIFORNIA, DERP DERP DERP NO CIVILIZATION PEOPLE EAT EACH OTHER DERE
DERP DERP DERP I LIVED MUH WHOLE LIFE NEVER LEAVIN MANHATTAN ISLAND, NEBBA BEEN MORE DAN TREE MILES FROM DA PLACE WHERE I WUZ BORN, DIS IS MANHATTAN AND YA CAN GET EBBYFING HERE, NO NEED TA LEAVE, DERP DERP NUTTIN OUTSIDE BUT DUMB MURRICAN HICKS, I KNOW CUZ I WATCH TEEVEE, DEY LIVE IN CAVES AN FUCK DERE SISTERS DERP DERP DERP