That's weak even by your demonstrably low standards. BTW Mikey/Jason/baldr, I never knew you were a Colonist:

suicides? How are suicides relevant to CCW
What empirical evidence do you have that these statistics are absurd?
Why would the Iowa gov. fake them?
What indirect effect? There isn't any shown evidence that one has anything to do with another.

It is standard police procedure and takes only a few seconds. When they enter the offenders name for a records check that is one of the things that is automatically checked by the computer. As usual you don't know what you are talking about.

you have no clue what you're talking about. Every time we run a name through our computer database, it will tell us everything about the person, including whether or not said person has a CC permit.
Your assertion that LE doesn't know or doesn't check to see if a person has a CC permit is just so much horseshit, it's astounding how ignorant you are on this subject.

Let's not challenge Mike's imagination, now, OK?

Bullshitter Lying On (the) Grid

So you attribute causality to the jump in gun "incidents"? More concerned citizens took the time to fill out the paperwork and get a CCW permit, and that led, inevitably, to the increase in gun incidents? Is that what you "imagine"?

Could it not, perhaps, be the other way around? Concerned citizens see the increase in crime and violent crimes by armed criminals, and they therefore want to arm themselves for protection? Cedar Rapids has gone downhill in the past few years and the perception is that crime is much worse.

You will continue to believe what you wish, perched in your ivory Italian blogosphere bubble, but real people who live in real American cities sometimes choose to make real decisions that will help their families should a really bad situation arise.

...why they aren't showing up here to support this drivel. Come on Dan, Warren, Elissonz, Fight, and others. Surely you won't leave a fellow anti-gunner hanging to (not) defend his own assertions again? Certainly vocal enough to denounce other regulars but silent for those that equate lawful gun owners to criminals and murderers and advocate expeditious use of the death penalty...

There Mike goes with his imagination in lieu of facts again.

How about some actual data that shows the number of people in Iowa who have CCW permits and the number of those people who commit crimes? Oh wait...

So, the truth is, we have no idea how many of these licensed gun owners are becoming criminals.

Hey! There it is! So why don't we just make shit up about it, instead?

Come on Mike. A little less imagination, a little more data.

I'll just pull some more nonsense out of my nether orifice.

And fuck anyone that doesn't like it.