MSNBC’s Velshi ‘Fact Check’: After States Pass Concealed Carry, Crime Rights Higher than They’d Be ‘Projected’

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VELSHI: "Some states like New York for instance and California, they -- well, some states like Arizona don’t require a permit to be carried at all. This is a mess, this color scheming. But, New York and California, which are not even colored on this map, does not have — they’ve got very restrictive rules to get a permit. So the NRA argues that the states with looser concealed carry laws are much safer than those without. Again, not true. A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research looked at states that adopted right to carry concealed gun handgun laws, RTC, right to carry. It found that violent crime was 13 to 15 percent higher ten years after the right to carry laws were adopted than the projections would have been if those laws had not been passed. And a 1998 survey of shootings in three cities found that for every time a homeowner used a gun for self-defense or some other legally justified shooting, there were four unintentional shootings. All the data shows that more guns do not mean more safety.”