I subscribe to a few anti-gun mailing lists. As such, I get weird emails from time to time. Some are ludicrous, some are informative, and lately, most of them carry a certain air of desperation.
Today’s example: a request from the Wisconsin Anti Violence Effort urging me to sign a petition against reform of Wisconsin’s carry laws. According to the petition,
Research shows that allowing more people to carry guns in more places will lead to one thing — more tragedies.
That’s odd, because most statistics I’ve seen prove quite the opposite. Perhaps if they’d provided a citation, I could research their allegation further. Alas, none seems forthcoming.
Not that it would help much. Carry reform in Wisconsin, though long overdue, is all but inevitable. Once passed, Illinois will be the last state in the union that completely bans concealed carry.