Six of Ohio’s eight largest cities saw less gun crime after the state’s “constitutional carry” law took effect, according to a study published today by the Center for Justice Research, a partnership between the office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and Bowling Green State University.
Beginning June 13, 2022, Ohio became the 23rd state to allow its citizens to carry a concealed weapon without a permit. In the year following, crime involving guns dropped across Ohio’s eight largest cities as a whole and in six of the eight individually.
“This is not to downplay the very real problem of crime in many neighborhoods in our cities – you don’t need a research team to see that gun violence destroys lives, families and opportunity,” Yost said. “The key takeaway from this study is that we have to keep the pressure on the criminals who shoot people, rather than Ohioans who responsibly exercise their Second Amendment rights.”
Last year, mayors of several large cities blamed crime in their local communities on the change in state law – comments that were the impetus for the study, Yost said.
“I genuinely did not know what the study would find,” he said. “I thought it would be useful either way.”
So there’s proof everywhere, but they still want extreme gun control. It’s called flim flam, to get control.
Duh…if the bad guys think everyone could be armed, they will stop preying on people as much as they do. Not hard to connect the dots!
so do I need a permit from some bureaucratic ahole to exercise any of my other constitutional rights? piss off!