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« Dick Riley passes on | Main | West Virginia U keep its rifle team »

Another myth passes

Posted by David Hardy · 14 December 2009 10:06 PM

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.

· CCW licensing

5 Comments | Leave a comment

Jim D. | December 14, 2009 10:44 PM | Reply

"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.

GMC70 | December 15, 2009 1:22 PM | Reply

"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 . . .

Andrew | December 15, 2009 9:41 PM | Reply

Thanks for posting these great stats! It's great to have some numbers to back up the logic.

red wagon | December 16, 2009 12:07 PM | Reply

Murders and robberies are down? Don't let the facts get in the way of the anti's emotional tantrums.

Ted | December 17, 2009 12:27 AM | Reply

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.

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