Bloomberg's group over 55x more likely to be convicted of crime than TX CHL holders. [View All]

NYC Mayor Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) consists of 578 current mayors pushing for various gun control measures.

Here are eight current or former members:
Shiela Dixon, Baltimore, MD
Gary Becker, Racine, WI
Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit, MI
David Delle Donna, Guttenberg, NJ
Samuel Rivera, Passaic, NJ
Will Wynn, Austin, TX
Larry Langford, Birmingham, AL
Jeremiah Healy, Jersey City, NJ

What's so special about these eight? Well, they've been convicted of crimes- fraud and perjury, sexually assaulting a child, extortion, bribery, and tax evasion to name some.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010605022.html
http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/79928682.html
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080904/NEWS01/309050001
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/04/jurors_in_the_federal_corrupti.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/24passaicnj.html?_r=2
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/6/142631/5235
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/10/larry_langford_found_guilty.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/nyregion/23mayor.html?_r=2&oref=slogin

So, what's the rate for conviction in Bloomberg's group? 1384 per 100,000.

What's the rate for conviction for Texas CHL holders? 25 per 100,000 (2009*).

Bloomberg's group is 55x more likely to be convicted of a crime than TX CHL holders.




*calculated from:
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/administration/crime_records/chl/ConvictionRatesReport2009.pdf
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/administration/crime_records/chl/PDF/ActLicAndInstr/ActiveLicandInstr2009.pdf