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First of all, the stats you cite showing the injury rate include all instances of accidental injuries, not instances where someone carrying a concealed handgun injured themselves. Second, this bill would not make and new concealed carriers, it would just expand the area where people who already possess a license can carry. As to your call for statistics, well there's John Lott's studies. Its ancedotal, but this book has multiple instances of someone using a firearm to stop a crime involving another firearm. Do you happen to have any statistics that a ban own ownership reduces gun violence?

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Abstract of an article from 1994 in which there were an estimated half million instances of a homeowner using a firearm to scare away an intruder. Unless you want to say that every intruder did not have a firearm or had one but was unwilling to use it, I'd say that prevented some gun violence.

Most gun fights take place at conversational distance:

http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57746

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