Virginia CCW Heads Up

Whiskey River wrote:
Nice post ramgunner.
Look at the crime rates of some of the cities in states not listed as reciprocity / recognition for conceal carry.
New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts, California
It is next to impossible to get a carry license in those states unless you are former law enforcement. But who has the guns??? All hoodlums and gang members.

It makes for good sound bites, "crime rates are correlated with gun laws", for either side of the argument; but I'll bet if you carefully look at the data you'll find no correlation between presence/absence of strict gun laws and crime rates. I'll also bet that there is a better correlation between crime rates and population density than with absence/presence of strict gun laws. Finally, correlation does not imply or prove causation.