If you will click on the detail page to show each killing you will find that the Michigan states entries include exactly 100 suicides in which the only one killed was the CCWer. The entries don't give the method of suicide so if a person took pills to do it then it has nothing to do with him having a CCW, but VPC still counts it.
When a CCWer commits a murder/suicide they count that as two CCW killings instead of one.
They have been counting since 2007 to get the highest number, instead of giving an annual rate. An annual rate is a more accurate number, but not as alarming.
Some of those murders were not done with guns, so what does having a CCW have to do with it?
If you really want an accurate comparison of CCW people to the general population, which I seriously doubt that you do, the state of Texas annually publishes the exact statistics for their state. At the end of 2011 we had 518,625 people with Concealed Handgun Licenses. We had exactly 6 convicted of murder or manslaughter, out of 573 such convictions for the entire state. http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/rsd/chl/reports/demographics.htm
Here is a chart comparing conviction rates of CHL holders to the general population. CHLers are in red, General Population in blue.
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We are far more law-abinding than the general public, although some few of us do go bad.
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