Brady campaign rates the states

[lamebums]

T-dead last. I'll take it.

Now they need to lower the age to 18 for handguns and concealed carry permits.

Get that zero already

 

[alaskanativeson]

Dead last and falling. Who said us hillbilly's are dumb?

Apparently the Brady Bunch does. I'd take that as a compliment.

 

[ChronoCube]

I plotted the Brady scores vs the 2006 FBI violent crime rates by state (also taken from the Brady Campaign): http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/pdf/reports/violent-crime-state-ranking-1987-2006.pdf

The attached picture plots score (strictness of gun laws) vs violent crime rate. There is no obvious correlation between the two.

 

[45tex]

This is why Texas needs to introduce and pass the Open Carry Act

I'm really upset that Texas is not red.

 

[SsevenN]

Just when I thought the Brady's couldn't be any more offensive, they rate the great state of NH at number 23?!?!?!?

We should be number 48, only being beaten by Vermont and Alaska, who would tie at 49.

I was born and raised in NH.

I moved to New Mexico a year and a half ago.
I'll tell you right now that VT and NH are no where near as gun friendly as places like AZ, NM, CO.

No offense, but have you open carried down Main st. in Concord, NH and NOT got a handful of creepy looks and possibly a police visit?
It's more than just the laws, it's also perception and acceptence, and you will get a whole lot of acceptence 'round here.

And even if it was all about the laws, NH has wierd OC restrictions, VT has class III NFA item restrictions...Nah, they got miles to go.

 

[Kentucky-roughrider]

Thanks to Jorg's link it is possible to lower our score down to zero, MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO BAN FIREARMS ON COLLEGES. Thank you Jorg and gentleman and ladies we still have work to do.

 

[RobXD9]

New mexico - wrong

They're wrong on New Mexico.

They gave us 2 points for "Deadly Force not allowed to be first resort in public."

This is patently false.

Hopefully they're wrong about our rank also. Much higher than it should be at $36.

Rob

 

[Pushrod]

It would be interesting to plot cities that have stricter gun control laws than the states and their violent crime rates vs. those cities with leanient gun laws and their violent crime rates.

 

[ServiceSoon]

Thanks for the chart ChronoCube.

 

[mljdeckard]

I am upset that Utah isn't in red this year. We'll have to see what we can do about that.