The second amendment of the constitution guarantees the right to keep and bear arms. As the specter of gun violence continues in our workplaces, roads and schools, the question keeps arising: do guns keep you safe, or just increase the level of violence?
Gun control supporters like to say that allowing people to have guns inevitably leads to crime, and on no issue do they make that claim more consistently than on Right-to-Carry. Starting with Florida in 1987, and in each of 28 states that have adopted RTC laws since then, gun control suporters have claimed that allowing people to carry guns for protection would lead to a surge in crime.
As noted, violent crime is now at about a 30-year low. Not only that, states that have Right-to-Carry laws have, on average, lower violent crime rates than the rest of the country--total violent crime by 26 percent; murder, 31 percent; robbery, 50 percent; and aggravated assault, 15 percent.
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