The criminals not knowing who may be armed has helped lower violent crime.
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune
Violent crimes, most notably, homicides, have been plummeting in Minneapolis during the past two years, according to statistics released today by the city’s police department.
Between January 1 and Monday, only three homicides had occurred in the city, compared to 11 during the same period in 2008 and 18 a year earlier.
It’s a far cry from 1995, when a record 97 homicides saddled the city with national infamy when a journalist dubbed it “Murderapolis.â€
Drops in reported rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults also have been recorded during the two year period, but those declines have been less dramatic.
Overall, violent crime has dropped more than 25 percent since 2007 and nearly 18 percent in the past year alone.
In both 2007 and 2008, the city enjoyed double-digit percentage declines in violent crimes. …
Total property crimes also have dropped, down more than 11 percent to date, compared to last year, and 23 percent since 2007.
While there are some other contributing factors that do deserve to be included in the reasonign behind the drop in violent crime, one that is strangely absent from the MST report is filed by Rob @ SayAnything
The peak for murder and violence in Minneapolis was 2005. And what happened in 2005? Why, the Minnesota Personal Protection Act took effect.
It seems to me that “More Guns, Less Crime” might actually work. Too bad that some let their bigotry get in the way of “listening to the science”.