vito
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I know that the main stream media is usually loathe to report cases where a gun stops a crime, or prevents it from even starting, but it is still a surprise to me how rarely one hears about an armed citizen intervening into a criminal situation to save the day. Part of it, I assume, is that even armed individuals tend to not want to get involved if the threat is not directly aimed at them or someone close to them, but I tend to think the main answer is just that so few people, even with permits, actually go out into the public carrying a concealed firearm. This made me wonder what state or states have the highest percentage of their adult population possessing a carry permit, and the assumption that the percentage of permit holders who actually carry probably doesn't vary that much state to state. Do those states with relatively high percentages have more reported cases of licensed carriers stopping a crime? Or are the numbers just too small, even in the states with high percentages, to make it likely that an armed citizen will be in the vicinity when a crime initiates?