Claim: "Everywhere that we have more citizens carrying guns, crime is less. There's a study showing that where states have open carry or concealed carry, but particularly open carry, the crime is down 25 percent."
Fact-check: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick claims states where people carry guns have less crime
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Linda Qiu
Date published: 2016-01-03T00:00:00