Texas Monthly magazine's "Guns Issue"

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For those of you who read Texas Monthly, please comment on the current (April) "Guns Issue". I got mine today, and found it pretty interesting. I especially liked the chart on pages 82-83 which showed that as background checks for gun purchases have gone up in Texas, violent and property crimes have gone down. I know correlation is not causation, but still...

Another stat on that page shows that as of 2014, 3 percent of Texas' population was licensed to carry. I'll bet it's more than that now.

 

[Glashaus]

I just got an email from TSRA and they say that Texas handgun carry license applications are up 139% from last year.

 

[DWalt]

TM is a leftist yuppie-oriented rag. I am surprised they would have anything good to say about guns. I stopped reading it quite a few years ago (once I was a subscriber). Its feature content is written mainly for an elitist audience with which I have nothing in common, and is about 2/3s advertising, principally for luxury goods.

 

[wbraswell]

i'd say background checks have nothing to do with it. As gun purchases have gone up, crime has gone down. Also as the number carry licenses has gone up, crime has gone down.

 

[Alpo]

Don't like how that was phrased.

I suppose "background checks" are a way to track gun purchases, but instead of saying, "as PURCHASES go up crime drops", they said "background checks ".

Well, obviously, that means background checks prevent crime, so we need MORE background checks. We need them at gunshows, and for private purchases.

Because it's the BACKGROUND CHECKS that are preventing crimes.

 

[shotgun693]

On the News just about an hour ago they announced that Texas LTC now number 1 million. This does NOT include retired Peace Officers as we are exempted by law. A retired PO needs only to qualify each year to carry. We get a Retirement ID from the Agency where we retied. BTW, they may NOT deny an ID to an Honorably Retired Officer.

 

[leswad]

I saw this nice state today:

Privately-owned guns rose from 192M in 1994 to 310M in 2009, leading the firearm-related homicide rate to fall from 6.6 to 3.6 per 100,000.

 

[StakeOut]

I usually read posts Texas Gun Talk

Texas Gun Talk - The Premier Texas Gun Forum

 

[swsig]

TM is a leftist yuppie-oriented rag. I am surprised they would have anything good to say about guns. I stopped reading it quite a few years ago (once I was a subscriber). Its feature content is written mainly for an elitist audience with which I have nothing in common, and is about 2/3s advertising, principally for luxury goods.

I cringed when I saw the cover, thinking the articles might be some anti-gun diatribes. But hey, this is Texas after all, and most of the articles were surprisingly gun-friendly. Even Texas Monthly knows which side its bread is buttered on. I've kept my subscription, because if I can wade past all the yuppified ads, there are usually some gems among the articles. The annual Bum Steer Awards alone are worth the subscription price to me.

 

[armadillo]

I don't pay much attention to TM. I stopped subscribing to it in the '80's when they did so many stories that glorified high-profile criminals.

The only exception is when they do the Bar-B-Q issue once every few years.