According to the NRA, Indiana has more than 250,000 right-to-carry gun permit holders, many of whom carry firearms during their commutes to and from work. Furthermore, in March 2009, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed NRA-backed legislation allowing employees to store legally owned firearms in locked, private motor vehicles while parked in employer parking lots. (Florida has a similar law.) Yet somehow Indiana, with all those gun-toting folks, has not become a killing zone, as the chart below indicates.



From FBI's 2009 State Uniform Crime Reports