Reply #9: A great exercise in comparing apples to lug nuts. [View All]

For one thing, people with criminal records can't get (or at least are not supposed to get) CCW permits. That automatically skews the sampling because, OF COURSE, people with CCW permits are less likely to be involved in shootings than the general populace.

Then, you are comparing this select group with everybody else - including the hundred million americans who do not own guns. So you actually have three groups - those with CCW permits, those who carry without CCW permits (by definition, criminals), and those who do not carry at all, who do not own guns.

CCW permitees are far less likely to commit gun crimes than criminals. Duh.
OTOH, CCW permittee are far likelier to be involved in a shooting than people who never carry guns.

By all means, lets play with statistics.