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Friday, February 01, 2008
In January, the Brady Campaign released its annual “State Report Cards,” scoring the states according to their gun laws.
Once again, the Brady rankings clearly demonstrate that states that have the most gun control tend to have the most violent crime.
Brady says that a state could get a perfect “100″ if it would: limit the frequency of gun purchases; prohibit private transfers of firearms; require gun show attendees to sign a ledger to be provided to the police; prohibit the sale of firearms that do not engrave a serial number on fired ammunition and require registration such firearms’ purchasers; license and regulate firearm dealers at the state level; prohibit handguns that do not have “smart” gun features; prohibit detachable-magazine semi-automatics and some pump-action rifles and shotguns; allow the arbitrary rejection of Right-to-Carry permit applications; allow local jurisdictions to impose gun control laws more restrictive than the state legislature; and allow the criminal prosecution of people who use firearms in legitimate self-defense. (emphasis mine)
Since most states do not have these kinds of laws — gun control having been rolled back and rejected at the federal, state, and local levels in the last 15-20 years — Brady gave most states “failing” scores. Forty-two states received 28 points or fewer, and only one state received a score higher than 63–California.
But, as usual, Brady’s scores correlate inversely with states’ crime rates. Using crime data published by the FBI for 2006, the most recent year available:
* California, the state that has the most gun control and received Brady’s highest score (79), has violent crime and murder rates that are 14% and 23% higher, respectively, compared to the rest of the country.
* Brady didn’t bother giving a score to Washington, D.C., which has more gun control than California and even higher crime rates.
* Most of the 38 states that Brady gave 20 or fewer points to, have total violent crime, murder, and robbery rates that are below the national rates.
* For states that have total violent crime, murder, and robbery rates that are below the national rates, Brady gave average scores of 19, 19, and 14, respectively.
* For the 10 states with the lowest total violent crime, murder, and robbery rates, Brady gave average scores of 12, 12, and 9, respectively.
Being wrong once is understandable. Being wrong constantly like the Brady Campaign, points to a serious shortage of brain wattage.
Guns on campus?
Published on Saturday, February 02, 2008
A bill passed this week by a House committee would guarantee people the right to carry or possess firearms on the campuses of South Dakota’s public universities.
HB1261 would also prevent schools from expelling students or firing employees for having a gun on campus.
If this saves just one child’s life, it will be worth it.
Archived in: Brady Campaign, California, Gun Control, MoonbatsFebruary 2, 2008 at 7:28 pm | Trackback
2 comments
‘Being wrong constantly like the Brady Campaign, points to a serious shortage of brain wattage.’ Actually it point out that the Brady bunch will lie to the max to snow job the three/four people that fund them.
Compliments for this post. It’s proven again and again, but leftists aren’t interested in good government or a good society, they’re interested in punishing, restricting and coercing people they dislike, and who are not members of their class. Simple snobbery. It’s class politics because that’s all there is to it, class and status markers. Tax and gun and ownership policy is based entirely on “need”, and they decide what you need - how much, what quantity, and which items.