according to [url=http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/3859185.html]this article[/url], John Lott says that in the first 4 years of Texas' shall-issue laws for ccw, only 215,000 people got CCW permits...
That's bad.
All the numbers you hear about the millions and millions of gun owners, you would think in a state as big as Texas there would be more than a quarter of a million ccw holders.
According to the 2000 census, there was a total of 20,955,248 people living in Texas.
So 1% of the population got CCW's...
{chicken little mode} [red]Gun owners are too divided, and eventually the Gov't is gonna git us all.[/red]{/chicken little mode}
I just wonder if there is enough cohesion amongst us. I'm pessimistic tho. The future don't look bright.
Scott