{"id":27300,"date":"2016-05-19T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T16:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=27300"},"modified":"2016-05-19T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T16:24:24","slug":"texas-hits-1-million-chl-holders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=27300","title":{"rendered":"Texas Hits 1 Million CHL Holders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a milestone worth celebrating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/12\/us\/licensed-to-carry-handguns-in-texas.html?_r=2\">Texas hits 1 million citizens possessing CHL\/LTCs<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Remember how gun control advocates said violent crime would soar when more people were armed? Hasn&#8217;t happened. Both rates and absolute numbers of violent crimes in Texas have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disastercenter.com\/crime\/txcrime.htm\">been falling since 1991<\/a>, even as Texas population increased by almost 10 million people. Says CHL bill sponsor Jerry Patterson: \u201cI\u2019d say those who predicted shootouts at four-way stops need to apologize to the rest of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering why more law-abiding citizens carrying guns has coincided with dropping crime rates, the book linked below might have some answers for you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=lawpershompag-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0226493660&#038;asins=0226493660&#038;linkId=PAFWH2F5MMWUWJWQ&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a milestone worth celebrating: Texas hits 1 million citizens possessing CHL\/LTCs. Remember how gun control advocates said violent crime would soar when more people were armed? Hasn&#8217;t happened. Both rates and absolute numbers of violent crimes in Texas have been falling since 1991, even as Texas population increased by almost 10 million people. Says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,38,12],"tags":[376,2872,2868,1713,2861],"class_list":["post-27300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-guns","category-texas","tag-chl","tag-crime","tag-guns","tag-jerry-patterson","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27326,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27300\/revisions\/27326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}