Does Texas have less gun related crime?

Yes. Here is a tale of two cities: Houston and Chicago are about the same size and both have large populations of black and spanish-speaking people. Houston has hundreds of guns shops and Chicago has none. read more

We checked his math and found the same result: Those states had a combined violent crime rate of about 434 per 100,000 people. The remaining 42 states had a violent crime rate of about 352 per 100,000. That means states with open carry laws did have a 23 percent lower violent crime rate that year. read more

The State of Texas is considered to have some of the most constitutionally adherent gun laws in the United States. Public concerns over gun control in Texas have increased in recent years as Mexican drug cartels continue to commit violent crimes closer to Texas' stretch of the Mexico–United States border. read more