Detroit Police Chief endorses concealed carry

From Hot Air:

James Craig just took over the office of police chief last summer, but he’s already making waves in Detroit.

If more citizens were armed, criminals would think twice about attacking them, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said Thursday.

At least one recent study suggests that Craig hits the nail on the head. A long-range study by a Quinnipiac University economist shows that states with more restrictions on firearm ownership and carry permits had higher murder rates by guns than gun-friendly states, and suggests that increasing restrictions on concealed-carry permits pushes the murder rate up, not down. It also showed that assault-weapons bans had no effect on murder rates.