Howard Nemerov looks at the Brady Campaign’s own data (along with some FBI data) examining how states with high “Brady Scores” also have larger police forces and also greater incidents of violent crime.

I thought more police == less crime. I mean, the police are there to protect us, right?

Those “right to carry” states…. there should be blood flowing on the streets, people solving all of their problems with guns.  They certainly shouldn’t have less police and lower violent crime. That’s unpossible!

But hey… the facts speak for themselves.

Criminals don’t want to get killed. When they know people could be armed, they tend to take a different course of action.