The economist John Lott, in his book More Guns, Less Crime, states that laws which make it easier for law-abiding citizens to get a permit to carry a gun in public places, cause reductions in crime.

Lott's results suggest that allowing law-abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms deters crime because potential criminals do not know who may or may not be carrying a firearm.

In these states, law-abiding citizens ( usually after giving evidence of completing a training course ) may carry handguns on their person for self-protection.

Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, John C. Frémont, reported after the gunfight, " Many of the very best law-abiding and peace-loving citizens Tombstone have no confidence in the willingness of the civil officers to pursue and bring to justice that element of out-lawry so largely disturbing the sense of security ... opinion is quite prevalent that the civil officers are quite largely in league with the leaders of this disturbing and dangerous element.

* Parents ' responsibilities toward their children include rearing them " in love and righteousness ," providing " for their physical and spiritual needs ," and teaching " them to love and serve one another, observe the commandments of God, and be law-abiding citizens.

Laogai is distinguished from laojiao, or re-education through labor, which is an administrative detention for a person who is not a criminal but has committed minor offenses, and is intended to reform offenders into law-abiding citizens.

On July 6, 2010, J. Christian Adams, a former lawyer for the Justice Department, testified before the Commission on Civil Rights and alleged that the case was dropped because “ We abetted wrongdoing and abandoned law-abiding citizens ,”.

Grasping the injustice wrought on minorities who were legal, law-abiding citizens of this country instilled in him a lifelong goal to overcome these injustices, to fight for those less fortunate than others, and to persevere in providing opportunities for all Americans regardless of race or religious preferences.

While condemning crime in general, law-abiding citizens may nevertheless respect and admire the criminal who takes risks and successfully engages in exciting, dangerous activities.

The great body of the actual citizens are conservative, law-abiding and peace-loving men, disposed rather to make sacrifices for conciliation and consequent peace, than to insist for their entire rights should the general body thereby be caused to suffer.

This caused great inconvenience to the law-abiding citizens on whom the soldiers were billeted.

( d ) To shift the cost of hazardous waste cleanups more onto offenders and less onto law-abiding citizens.

Aristotle regarded the kind of laws adopted by Crete and Sparta as especially apt to produce virtuous and law-abiding citizens, although he also criticizes the Cretans and Spartans themselves as incompetent and corrupt, and built on a culture of war.

The majority of people were law-abiding citizens.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1929 for Thunderbolt, played the title role in The Wolf of Wall Street ( 1929, released just prior to the Wall Street Crash ), and appeared in Paramount's all-star revue Paramount on Parade ( 1930 ) and Rowland Brown's Blood Money ( 1933 ), condemned by the censors because they feared the film would " incite law-abiding citizens to crime.

The movement was founded in 1978 with the purpose of defending the right of law-abiding citizens to carry arms, and is opposed to any restrictions in this regard.

Regarding the Second Amendment, Coburn believes that it " recognizes the right of individual, law-abiding citizens to own and use firearms ," and he opposes " any and all efforts to mandate gun control on law-abiding citizens.

" I don't want to see anybody cutting in line, but I do think that people should be able to earn their citizenship if they're productive and law-abiding citizens .”

Any programming that involves service provision for individuals convicted of crime will likely face significant pushback from constituents and special interest groups who take issue with providing “ special treatment ," such as mental health, rehabilitation and educational services, which so many needy law-abiding citizens don ’ t have access to.

Honored twice by the Montana Library Association for his fight against governmental agencies ' spying on law-abiding citizens ( 2001 Legislator Award, 2006 Pat Williams Intellectual Freedom Award ), Jim is also a Fellow of the Eleanor Roosevelt Global Leadership Institute and the Arthur Fleming Leadership Institute.

The plan advocates the formal annexation of West Bank and Gaza by Israel and that Palestinians will be become either Jordanian citizens or permanent residents in Israel so long as they remained peaceful and law-abiding residents.

It is true that centuries of law-abiding and litigious habitude had accumulated, in the temple archives of each city, vast stores of precedent in ancient deeds and records of judicial decisions and that intercourse had assimilated city custom.

Not long after, Colonel Kawilarang with the use of military intelligence located and met with Major Rokus Bernardus Visser — a former member of the Dutch Special Forces who had remained a peaceful and law-abiding citizen in newly independent Indonesia, settled in West Java, married an Indonesian woman, and adopted an Indonesian name, Mohamad Idjon Djanbi.

The decline was hastened by Stephenson's talking to the press in 1926-1927 about government officials who had accepted payments and bribes from the Klan ; the organization lost its reputation as law-abiding and upholding morality.

The AMA released a statement saying that they had no involvement with the Hollister riot, and, " the trouble was caused by the one per cent deviant that tarnishes the public image of both motorcycles and motorcyclists " and that the other ninety-nine per cent of motorcyclists are good, decent, law-abiding citizens.

On the same day, Keïta announced the support of his Espoir 2002 alliance for Touré in the second round ; regarding the Court's ruling, he described himself as " a law-abiding person " and said that the Court had followed the law.

Not long after, Colonel Kawilarang with the use of military intelligence located and met with Major Rokus Bernardus Visser-a former member of the Dutch Special Forces who had remained a peaceful and law-abiding citizen in newly independent Indonesia, settled in West Java, married an Indonesian woman, and was known locally as Mohamad Idjon Djanbi.

They seemed to be entirely random victims, and their brutal deaths violated the social ideal that law-abiding people who lived decent lives and worked hard had nothing to fear.

Film noir encompasses a range of plots: the central figure may be a private eye ( The Big Sleep ), a plainclothes policeman ( The Big Heat ), an aging boxer ( The Set-Up ), a hapless grifter ( Night and the City ), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime ( Gun Crazy ), or simply a victim of circumstance ( D. O. A .).

The author portrays Christianity as divine, respectable, law-abiding, and international.

" He went on to defend the goth community, calling goths " perfectly peaceful, law-abiding people who pose no threat to anybody.

: Around this time, according to popular opinion, a certain outlaw named Robin Hood, with his accomplices, infested Sherwood and other law-abiding areas of England with continuous robberies.

Page ii contains quotations by William Whewell and Francis Bacon on the theology of natural laws, harmonising science and religion in accordance with Isaac Newton's belief in a rational God who established a law-abiding cosmos.

King and his Cabinet ignored reports from the RCMP and Canadian military that most of the Japanese were law-abiding and not a threat.

* Recklessly: the actor is aware that the attendant circumstances exist, but nevertheless engages in the conduct that a " law-abiding person " would have refrained from.

Kent ( Robert Montgomery ), a young law-abiding man kills someone while driving drunk, is sentenced to ten years for manslaughter.

It described the shooting and other lesser incidents that took place in the days before as unprovoked attacks on peaceful, law-abiding inhabitants, and was, according to historian Neal Langley York, probably the most influential description of the event.

Stories centre on his tricks, with which he outwitted law-abiding people and criminals alike.

However, Vallejo, law-abiding citizen he was, ordered a court trial at the Sonoma alcaldia, where Bale was nonetheless found guilty of attempted murder.

They were described as being " orderly, law-abiding, religious " and, by evidence of their prosperous farms and commodious homes, hard-working.

His son David 11th of Balnagowan was a more peace-and law-abiding chief than his father and grandfather.

While more of a stereotypical Southern redneck in earlier episodes, for example idolizing outlaw singer Willie Nelson, Hank becomes more of a small town, middle class conservative who is extremely law-abiding.