Interesting conceal and carry facts from Texas

Concealed Carry in Texas
-The rate of concealed carry in Texas is about 1.2%. Approximately one Texan out of every 83 is licensed to carry a concealed handgun. (Texas Department of Public Safety; U.S. Census Bureau)
-In the state of Texas, concealed carry is allowed in most unsecured locations, including office buildings, movie theaters, grocery stores, shopping malls, restaurants, churches, banks, and state and municipal buildings (including the Texas State Capitol building in Austin).

-In Texas, concealed handgun license holders are already allowed to carry concealed handguns in the outdoor common areas of college campuses—areas such as streets, sidewalks, walkways, parking lots, parking garages, etc. Current state law only prohibits concealed carry in campus buildings (TX PC § 46.035[f][3]).

"I lobbied against the law in 1993 and 1995 because I thought it would lead to wholesale armed conflict. That hasn't happened. All the horror stories I thought would come to pass didn't happen. No bogeyman. I think it's worked out well, and that says good things about the citizens who have permits. I'm a convert." -- Glenn White, president of the Dallas Police Association, Dallas Morning News, December 23, 1997

"I ... [felt] that such legislation present[ed] a clear and present danger to law-abiding citizens by placing more handguns on our streets. Boy was I wrong. Our experience in Harris County, and indeed statewide, has proven my fears absolutely groundless." -- Harris County [Texas] District Attorney John Holmes, Dallas Morning News, December 23, 1997

According to statistics:
-A packed 350-seat Texas movie theater contains four concealed handgun license holders. (Texas Department of Public Safety; U.S. Census Bureau)

-During the busy holiday shopping season, over 1,000 concealed handgun license holders visit the outlet malls in San Marcos, Texas, EVERY DAY. (Texas Department of Public Safety; U.S. Census Bureau; "San Marcos prepared for shopping crowds on tax-free weekend," August 18, 2008, Austin American-Statesman)

-If the violent crime rate among all U.S. citizens was the same as the violent crime rate among Texas concealed handgun license holders, the United States would have a lower violent crime rate than England. (Texas Department of Public Safety; U.S. Department of Justice; United Nations)

-Based on 2002-2006 statistics, Texas concealed handgun license holders are five and a half times less likely than members of Texas’s general population to commit manslaughter and four times less likely to commit murder. (Texas Department of Public Safety; U.S. Census Bureau)

-In the thirteen years since Texas began issuing concealed handgun licenses (January 1, 1996), no Texas concealed handgun license holder has been convicted of capital murder. (Texas Department of Public Safety)

-Concealed carry has not led to an escalation of violent crime in the state of Texas. In fact, Texas’s murder rate fell 50% faster than the national average in the year after Texas’s concealed carry law passed. The rape rate fell 93% faster in the first year after enactment and 500% faster in the second year. The overall assault rate fell 250% faster in the second year. (U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics)

-A Texan is more than twice as likely to be killed by a bolt of lightning (and more than 20 times as likely to be struck by lightning) as to be murdered or negligently killed by a Texas concealed handgun license holder. (Texas Department of Public Safety, five year average of statistics on criminal convictions of CHL holders, 2002-2006; U.S. National Weather Service, "Medical Aspects of Lightning," Dr. Marry Ann Cooper)