If a national right to carry was introduced would crime increase or decrease

Would Crime Increase or Decrease if a National Law to Carry was introduced
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Abstract
The right-to-carry (RTC) law was one of the most notable policy differences between the eventual winner, President Trump, and his very worthy opponent Hillary Clinton. Clinton opposed the law arguing that it might lead to increased crime rates while Trump openly supported the law. This paper briefly analyses the possible impacts of the legislation on the rates of crime in the US. Both of the studies that are analyzed in this paper suggest that the law does increase the rates of crime in the states that implement it. One of these studies indicates that the law has the most significant impact on the aggravated assault cases. However, it also contributes to an upsurge, though not very significant, of crimes like murder, rape, and robbery. When approached using a different research design, the studies tended to produce different results. This difference in results due to different approaches is what inspires this research.
Would Crime Increase or Decrease if a National Law to Carry was introduced
The national right to carry law (RTC law) in the United States is one that permits the government to give citizens permits to own and walk around with concealed carry handguns as long as they meet the required threshold. This threshold is that one must have no mental illness history, have no substantial criminal record, and be an adult. There are some states that have applied this law while some still resist its application.

In the recently concluded presidential elections, President Trump was for the law while Hillary Clinton was against it. Below is a brief analysis of the impact of the law on crime in the U.S.
Research conducted in 48 metropolitan regions revealed that the average rate of homicides in the metros where one required a permit to buy a gun was 4.32 in every 100,000 residents and 5.72 in areas that needed no permit (Halbrook, 2013). Evidently, this data in no way shows that the right to carry law does reduce crime. In fact, a separate research conducted by the New Stanford research suggested that the law does exacerbate the rates of crime. The study investigated the association of the right-to-carry law with rates of crime such as robbery, rape, murder, and aggravated assault. Aggravated assault had the most significant relationship with the law. The study indicated that the law led to an approximately 8% increase in the rate of aggravated assault cases in the states that participated in the study (Donohue, 2009). Evidence of rape and robbery were not as strong as those on assault. Also, the rates of murder were found to have gone higher between 1999 and 2000 in states that applied the RTC law even after controlling the data for the possible influence of the “crack cocaine epidemic” on murder (Aneja, Donohue, & Zhang, 2011).
However, this and other similar studies produced different results if they adopted different approaches to their studies. Therefore, a review of just a few studies cannot be enough grounds for one to conclude that the RTC law does indeed increase or decrease crime rates. This research is inspired by the need to wipe out significant portions of the gray areas still surrounding this subject.
References
Aneja, A., Donohue, J. J., & Zhang, A. (2011). The impact of right-to-carry laws and the NRC
report: lessons for the empirical evaluation of law and policy. American Law and Economics Review, ahr009.
Donohue, J. (2009). More guns, less crime fails again: the latest evidence from 1977–
2006 (Doctoral dissertation, Yale Law School).
Halbrook, S. P. (2013). That every man be armed: The evolution of a constitutional right. UNM
Press.