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Six years after new rules made it much easier to get a license to carry
concealed weapons, the number of Michiganders legally packing heat has
increased more than six-fold.
But dire predictions about increased violence and bloodshed have largely
gone unfulfilled, according to law enforcement officials and, to the extent
they can be measured, crime statistics.
The incidence of violent crime in Michigan in the six years since the law
went into effect has been, on average, below the rate of the previous six
years. The overall incidence of death from firearms, including suicide and
accidents, also has declined...
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Fred Stone
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is
largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken
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