Virginia residents...

gr8grandma said:

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"The police can't be everywhere at once," he said. "If they can't be there, you've got a choice - either die or protect yourself. More and more people are looking at it that way."

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And with very good reason. I have a lot of respect for Philip Van Cleave. Several years ago, I signed up for the newsletter from Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL). They are very effective at the state level and Phillip is relentless in defending RKBA. :thumbup: :flag:

gr8grandma said:

"The police can't be everywhere at once," he said. "If they can't be there, you've got a choice - either die or protect yourself. More and more people are looking at it that way."

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Good for them.

Didn't something similar happen here in Utah after Trolley Square as well? I don't have the figures so if someone does, please share. But I remember reading or seeing something how Utah's Concealed Weapons Permit requests sky-rocketed too. It's sad that it takes situations like these to get people to realize that carrying is for the better.

Several years ago, I looked at the statistics at BCI and computed the percentage of Utah adults who have CFPs. I don't remember now how I determined how many of the then-valid CFPs were held by non-residents. Is that easy to find in the statistics?

I seem to remember that I computed that 3% of adult Utah residents had CFPs at that time.

EDIT: I just examined the 2004 1st Quarter report. It does give such statistics, but the 2007 4th Quarter report does not.
The reports give less information than they used to.

Utah 2007 population was estimated at 2,645,330 (http://www.census.gov/popest/states/NST-ann-est.html) and the total number of valid permits at the end of 2007 was 108,100.

When BCI was making the pitch to change the funding mechanism due to the number of applications (remember the 100 day waits last year?), I think they were saying about half the applications were from out of state. If we grossly oversimply and say half the permits are out of state, then the percentage of Utah residents having a permit would be (54050) / (2645330) = 0.0204 or 2.04%.

Next we lop off the under 21 crowd to come up with only those who are old enough for a permit. About 32.2% of the population is under 18 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah) so let's call it 35% that are 21 or older (this is conservative). Then, your equation would be (54040) / (1719464) = 3.14%.

Seems like you are in the ballpark.

UtahCFP said:

Then, your equation would be (54040) / (1719464) = 3.14%.

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Easy as π.

Wow! Pi shows up in the unlikeliest places...

Jeff Johnson said:

Wow! Pi shows up in the unlikeliest places...

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Yeah, I thought about that too.

I remember a cheer from MIT --

arc secant cotan sine
three point one four one five nine
go team!