Titled: Michigan's threat from concealed weapons

If you plan a trip to Michigan, you may want to check your life insurance policy, update your will and don your body armor. Come Sunday, unless the state supreme court intervenes, it will start letting residents get permits to carry concealed weapons. Gun-control advocates are braced for the worst.

"I can guarantee you that I've honked my last horn at an intersection in Michigan," former prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson told the Tribune's Tim Jones. A disgusted Oakland County official threatened to put up billboards saying "Welcome to Dodge City." Police groups say their members will be in jeopardy from "more guns in more and more locations."

Of course Michigan is already a risky place to honk your horn. Its homicide rate has long been well above the national average. Detroit currently places third in the ongoing competition to be the murder capital of the United
States. And things can only get much worse if lots of Michiganders take to packing heat, right?

It's a little dated but makes a great point anyway. You have to read the whole thing because the teaser is a bait and switch for anti-gun propaganda. It was written just prior to the time the "Shall Issue" law went into effect in Michigan. Four years later it hasn't gotten more danerous. In fact the statistics show something quite dfferent.

I am not saying that one is related to the other but those are the numbers. You can see the numbers yourself on the pdf file that the State of Michigan compiled them on.