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Non-Self Defense Deaths Involving Persons Legally Allowed to Carry Concealed Handguns Hits 370–VPC Concealed Carry Killers July/August Update

August 13, 2011 Comments off

Non-Self Defense Deaths Involving Persons Legally Allowed to Carry Concealed Handguns Hits 370–VPC Concealed Carry Killers July/August Update
Source: Violence Policy Center

At least 370 people, including 11 law enforcement officers, have been killed in incidents not ruled self-defense involving private citizens legally allowed to carry concealed handguns according to the July/August update of the Violence Policy Center’s (VPC) Concealed Carry Killers on-line resource (http://www.vpc.org/ccwkillers.htm).
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The Violence Policy Center’s Concealed Carry Killers database documents 266 incidents in 31 states since May 2007. In more than three quarters of the incidents (209) the concealed carry killer has already been convicted (73), committed suicide (130), or was killed in the incident (six). Of the 53 cases still pending, the vast majority (43) of concealed carry killers have been charged with criminal homicide, three were deemed incompetent to stand trial, and seven incidents are still under investigation. Four incidents were fatal unintentional shootings involving the gun of the concealed handgun permit holder. Nineteen of the incidents were mass shootings, resulting in the deaths of 84 victims.

Because most state systems that allow the carrying of concealed handguns in public by private citizens release little data about crimes committed by them, the primary source for Concealed Carry Killers is published news reports. It is likely that the actual number of fatal incidents involving citizens legally allowed to carry concealed handguns is far higher.

Categories: crime, death, firearms, safety, Violence Policy Center
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