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Another myth passes
Ed Stone notes in the Atlanta Examiner that this is the first anniversary of a Georgia law allowing CCW licensees to carry on mass transit systems. Some Atlanta mass transit system operators had begged for bulletproof shields to protect them from their homicidal yet CCW licensed passengers. "We don't want cameras. Cameras don't save people's lives. ... We want something that gives us a fighting chance."
Results of the first year: homicides on the Atlanta mass transit system fell from 2 to zero. Armed robberies from 94 to 71. Not much of a bloodbath.
Comments
"We don't want cameras. Cameras don't save people's lives. ... We want something that gives us a fighting chance."
Words to live by.
Posted by: Jim D. at December 14, 2009 10:44 PM
"We don't want cameras. Cameras don't save people's lives. ... We want something that gives us a fighting chance."
I'm guessing they don't appreciate the irony . . .
Posted by: GMC70 at December 15, 2009 01:22 PM
Thanks for posting these great stats! It's great to have some numbers to back up the logic.
Posted by: Andrew at December 15, 2009 09:41 PM
Murders and robberies are down? Don't let the facts get in the way of the anti's emotional tantrums.
Posted by: red wagon at December 16, 2009 12:07 PM
Facts? What are these facts you speak of? We all know that in everything related to guns, the only thing that matters if feelings! /sarc.
Posted by: Ted at December 17, 2009 12:27 AM