Stats Please!!

[Parrothead]

I need some stats on how many HCP holders we have in the state....

How many have been revoked....

Any gun crimes committed by HCP holders

[Garufa]

Why?

[TripleDigitRide]

Statistics and Research: Driver License / Handgun Data

[Guest TurboniumOxide]

Sounds Fishy to Me.

[Parrothead]

Why?

help me with a discussion on handgun rights. I want to prove to this fool that guns don't kill people

[Parrothead]

Sounds Fishy to Me.

easy killer....nothing fishy here

[Guest SUNTZU]

I love these posters. Thanks for the link, Swamprunner!

[Parrothead]

ok since no one wants to beleive i have a legit reason.....someone showed me this page and said "see....there is no excuse for this!!!" Well the guy followed the rules. I want to show this idiot just how many HCP holders there are in this state. Hell, he was standing next to me not knowing i was carrying (i dont broadcast). I just need some facts to back up my argument (Gun Carried Into Dem Congressman's Town Hall -- But Did Not Pose Any Threat | TPMDC)

[Guest SUNTZU]

Oh I believe you, parrothead. Its all the uses of the word "fishy" that needed a response. The stats are out there and I could care less how you plan on using them...they're in our favor.

Also,

94.637% of all statistics are made up, anyways.

[Garufa]

help me with a discussion on handgun rights. I want to prove to this fool that guns don't kill people

IMHO, Tennessee HCP records are irrelevent in such an argument. If the debate is over guns in general, the correct statistics are the number of guns owners in the country as a whole. Correlate that with the number of fatal instances of a gun being used by law-abiding citizens.

You may find that it's more deadly to get into your car and drive to work.

BTW, I've been through this. When an anti-gunner's mind is made up, you can argue until you're blue in the face. Same goes for conservative vs. liberal, etc.

Just take'em out shooting!

Edited August 12, 2009 by Garufa

[Parrothead]

IMHO, Tennessee HCP records are irrelevent in such an argument. If the debate is over guns in general, the correct statistics are the number of guns owners in the country as a whole. Correlate that with the number of fatal instances of a gun being used by law-abiding citizens.

You may find that it's more deadly to get into your car and drive to work.

BTW, I've been through this. When an anti-gunner's mind is made up, you can argue until you're blue in the face. Same goes for conservative vs. liberal, etc.

Just take'em out shooting!

i would love to have those numbers :)

[TNTitan]

Shooting deaths by Handgun Carry Permit holders represented only 1/10th of 1% of all firearm related deaths over the last 2 years. Anti-gun group tallies killings by permit holders (the group funding this research owned themselves with the data.. but you get the point)

[Guest 3pugguy]

help me with a discussion on handgun rights. I want to prove to this fool that guns don't kill people

In addition to the link provided by the OP, go to the local library and talk to the research librarian and tell him/her what you are working on - that is a great resource we forget about in this "internet age". Research librarians ROCK!

I am a (and have been since a kid) a big fan of the public library and think we overlook them in our Google-ness. Clarksville-Montgomery County has a nice library (personal story: as a teen ager, I worked in the former department store that occupied the building the library is in now).

[Guest donfromtexas]

$3.5 Million a year for the State to issue permits? Interesting data. Good thing they made nearly $5 Million or it would take longer than an average of 60 days to get one.

[LagerHead]

Parrot, all the stats you'll ever need and then some.

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