It seems that everytime a horrific shooting incident occurs, the anti-gun crowd ratchets up their agenda to eliminate guns.  It's happened again in Illinois as the Democrat Governor Pat Quinn has actually endorsed the idea of conceal-carry (48 other states already have it) and is being vilified for it.  As Steve Chapman writes, "By that, I refer to gun control advocates alarmed that the Illinois legislature may vote to let licensed individuals carry concealed handguns. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence calls the measure "dangerous." Kristen Rand of the Violence Policy Center says that it would lead to Tucson-style mass shootings as well as the killing of police."  However the statistics don't bear that out.  Chapman reports, "In fact, (Violence Policy Center) VPC's own data, when inspected closely, doesn't dent the case for gun rights. Over the past four years, there have been more than 60,000 homicides in the United States. The slayings carried out by permit holders amount to fewer than one of every 200 murders. For every licensee who killed someone, there are more than 20,000 who didn't.....What is extremely rare is a homicide committed by a permit holder in a public place in a fit of anger. Reviewing an earlier two-year database compiled by VPC, Kleck found only five cases "where possession of a carry permit may have contributed to the occurrence of the killing." Such episodes are not quite flying pigs, but almost."  The fact is that the murder rate in the United States has dropped by 50% in the last 20 years which as Chapman says, "The record of the past two decades demonstrates that you can strengthen the right of law-abiding adults to protect themselves against crime without making the world more dangerous."