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Prismsblade posted...

It wouldn't be hard to prove open carry really was the cause if they just examined the other states after green lighting theirs.

From the first article which you must have read :

That law, research suggests, increased violent crime rates. In a 2017 working paper, researchers with Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University found that concealed carry laws sometimes called right to carry laws were associated with a 13% to 15% higher violent crime rate 10 years after adoption. Such analyses are constructed by complex models that estimate how firearm death rates would have progressed in the state absent the change.

Prismsblade posted...

Dru Stevenson

A Federalist Society contributor who cannot comment more on those other cultural or societal changes.