Yikes.
Posted on 02/02/2008 12:26:11 PM PST by snowsislander
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.
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.
Yikes.
Don’t you know that you’re not supposed to say that? It’s one of those uppressed PC secrets like more rent control, more homelessness.
Great ponts. Thanks.
The Brady bunch want to create a bunch of laws that only affect the ability of the law-abiding to defend themselves and their families from criminals --- lawbreakers by definition are not going to pay any attention to the laws that the gungrabbers want to create.
Not only does this affect law-abiding people by creating byzantine rules for compliance with the thousands of gun laws in this country, but by disarming the law-abiding it also makes the field wide open for criminals to act with impunity.
I don't know what to attribute such inexplicable behavior on the part of the gungrabbers, but it certainly does not appear to be from a surplus of simple reasoning ability.
And the fools won't change their minds -- they will swear the stats are fa;se.
These people are bloody insane.
Yes, I think the ILA did a good job putting this together.
Why does Brady leave out “outaw crime”? That’ll fix it for sure. Won’t it??
Actually, me thinks the brady bunch are using violent crime as a means of disarming the public in order to impose a police state.
Gotta give credit where it’s due: the NRA did a great job with that article.
Using a badly brain damaged victim as the lead person is this is as pathetic a PR stunt as I’ve ever seen. The organization has zero credibility from that alone.
The used to assure us it was only evil HANDGUNS that they wanted to better control. But now we see (if we ever doubted) the full agenda which includes rifles and shotguns as well.
I am sure glad as a resident of Kentucky that we ranked last in the recent Brady. “State Report Cards” According to their report guns are very easily obtained in Ky. It’s a favorite location for the likes of Al Queda. I guess thats why our crime rates are so low. And that reminds me I need some more guns. Gotta go I’m headed for the gun show.
Can somebody get into Demo Underground to post this? I’d love to see their reaction to it.
“I don’t know what to attribute such inexplicable behavior on the part of the gungrabbers, but it certainly does not appear to be from a surplus of simple reasoning ability.”
Gungrabbers tend to be hard-core socialists, and they adhere strongly to the totalitarian dictum that the state must disarm the people, as that is the surest way of controlling them.
Ping
“I’ve come to believe that he needs a certain level of violence in this country. He’s willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda and his vice president, too.”
It wa true eight years ago, it’s true today. Teh gun grabbers need a certain level of violence and bloodshed to promote their littl totalitarian agenda.
Typical liberals.
I heard, but I don’t know for a fact, that there are a lot of gun-rights types there. If true, it’s amazing what two terms of a feared president can do to your outlook on firearms ownership rights!
I do not have the methodology that ILA used in compiling these statistics, but I personally would be surprised if the violent crime statistics were limited to those committed by criminals using guns since I don't believe that's relative to the ILA's point.
The ILA's point is that gun laws restrict the ability of the law-abiding to use guns to defend themselves from violent criminals --- and violent criminals by definition do not respect our laws, be they gun laws or laws against murder, theft, or assault.
More gun laws simply mean that criminals are more confident in committing violent crimes since law-abiding victims are less likely to be able to respond effectively.
A violent criminal would, all other things being equal, prefer to attack victims that cannot respond effectively. This is not only more logical, but is also borne out by the statistics that the ILA is providing in this article. The Brady bunch are in reality acting as sponsors of more violent crime by advocating more gun control.
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If Obama or the Hildog were to win in November, I predict a spike in sales of guns, cosmoline, and PVC between then and January.
Like what????
Out west here... Well, I was in a Dept store earlier today and walked by a young couple in the men’s dept. He was looking at some jeans and remarked to his (wife, girlfriend?) “Yeah, these will work... The belt loops are big enough for my concealed-carry belt and holster.” I love this state - where holster fit is a clothing choice criteria in your average department store. Even better, he wasn’t being shy about it, and no-one around within earshot paid any particular notice...
They used to be big gun grabbers. But two terms of Bush has apparently caused a bunch of them to come around on the Second Amendment. (So I’ve heard.)
The purpose of gun control is to protect the crooks in power from the people. Do I have to remind people crooks are running the government.
Boy there sure is a strong resemblance to McPain.
Some Photoshop jocks just needs to add a mustache to McCain.
They are still in the “For Me and not for Thee” stage.
Anone who would support the dem party is a gungrabber and anti-Rights.
Since you already know this, I’m just ranting.
ALABAMA Score: 15 out of 100 points
State Ranking: 19 out of 50 states
Woo hoo!!
I can understand the reason for the purchase of the guns and ammunition. You can never own to many of those tools. What I cannot understand is why anyone would want to have cosmoline and PVC for. A light coat of oil will keep yer shootin iron in fine shape till you need to use it.
Semper Fi
An Old Man
PS: aim for the "X" ring, it makes keeping score much easier.
I don’t get it - Maine answers “no” to all the brady questions, but is still middle of the pack.
Maybe Brady should admit that only a very SMALL minority of the states have passed ANY Brady provision.
LOL
“Hey baby, wudda thnk?”
“I dunno Honey. Maybe the Kinber is a little large - carry the .38 instead... It doesn’t make make you shirt stick it out so much.”
Alaska came in almost dead last - which is fine for me.....
Brady needs to concentrate on tomorrow’s game, then he can worry about small stuff like gun grabbing.
Yes, but it's insufficient if you need to bury anything in the back yard after the government decides its subjects don't need to own guns.
I heard that after private ownership of guns was effectively banned in Australia, they did have a spike in sales of cosmoline and PVC. Don't know if it's true or not.
I am sure that you are aware of those small ground penetrating radar devices that all of the larger police departments have. You are going to have to dig a very deep hole to put your PVC canister in!
It has been said right here on FreeRepublic that if it is time to bury your guns, then it is time to break them out and start using them. If "the government decides its subjects don't need to own guns", the we should not break the law.
Semper Fi
An Old Man
Or use a GPS to find an out of the way place. Future generations may make a hobby out of finding such treasures.
Terry O’Brien’s article was just one day before the mass murder http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/774574,CST-NWS-SHOOTFINAL03.article of five women in a Tinley Park store.
The Choice Cook County Democrats Want to Deny Women
By Teri O’Brien
Posted in Our Columns on February 01, 2008 with 7 comments.
tags: Beavers Suffredin
Like all grownups, even the least attentive, I enjoy watching the infantile games that liberals play. A current favorite is called “Race and Gender Don’t Matter” game. The rules are that candidates proclaim that their candidacy has nothing to do with the aforementioned immutable genetically inherited traits and then proceed to recite a laundry list of their supporters, neatly categorized by race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual preference.
The Super Bowl of the Race-Gender Olympics has been the ongoing back and forth between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, with color (no, not that kind of color!) commentators breathlessly predicting who will get the “female vote,” and who the “African-American” vote. That’s “vote,” singular. I guess that proves that don’t view their voters as members of groups. Instead, they view them as so incapable of individual thought that each racial, ethnic or gender category may as well be one voting entity.
Ordinarily I recoil against this sort of group-think, but in the spirit of the currently fashionable bipartisanship, as we approach the Illinois primary, I want to address this column to the voters of Cook County, but especially the female voters.
You need to pay attention, ladies.
If you doubt that, I have it on no less authority than Oprah herself. On a recent show, the Oprah discussed “The Gift of Fear,” a book that explains that we women often ignore our gut instincts at our peril. So, even if that charming guy you just started dating raises more red flags in your head than you’d see at a May Day rally in Havana, you tell yourself everything is terrific, which it is, until everything breaks bad, and you wake up in your own bed at 3 a.m. with Mr. Wonderful standing over you with a knife at your throat.
Fortunately, the woman in question in this story, who lived to tell it on “Oprah,” was able to escape. But Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and her two daughters Haley, 11 and Michaela, 17, were not so lucky last summer. After two vicious criminals broke into their Cheshire, Connecticut home, held them hostage and forced Jennifer, a 48 year-old nurse, to withdraw cash from her bank, they strangled her, tied the girls to their beds and set the house on fire. The girls died of smoke inhalation. Bill Petit, Jennifer’s husband of 22 years, had been severely beaten and tied up in the basement, but managed to survive.
Original news reports said that police had “rushed” to the scene, but on January 24, 2008, ABC News reported that while the two scumbags were terrorizing this family, a police officer was nearby for at least 30 minutes. The officer was forbidden to approach the house while the department decided where to set up the appropriate perimeter and otherwise comply with department policy, which apparently doesn’t include making sure innocent women and children don’t get murdered while the cops try to figure out what to do.
Coincidentally, on the same day that I read that learned that the Petit tragedy might have been prevented, I checked the status of the scheme being cooked up by two Cook county commissioners to disarm nearly all law-abiding citizens in the county, leaving us in the same situation as Jennifer Hawke-Petit. I know that it isn’t exactly breaking news that liberal Democrats want to turn self-reliant Americans into cowering supplicants, dependent on them for everything from health care to their very lives, but I never cease to be amazed by the arrogance of people like Cook County Commissioners Larry Suffredin (D-13) and William Beavers (D-4).
Suffredin is running for Cook county state’s attorney. From his commercials, you’d think his primary qualification for the job is that he’s tall and that he’s a “reformer,” as confirmed by that well-known reformer Jesse Jackson, Jr., who appears in one of . Suffredin’s ads. While he does mention that the NRA opposes him, he fails to mention why. I can say it simply: he is an enemy of freedom, a man who is contemptuous of the 2nd amendment, a demagogue who hopes to appeal to well-intentioned but uninformed voters who don’t realize that in a country where 48 states permit law-abiding citizens to own and carry firearms, it is gun grabbers like Suffredin who are, to borrow a favorite liberal phrase, “out of the mainstream.”
Beavers no doubt discovered the crime-preventing value of gun control by his experience on the south side of Chicago/ His , ill-conceived, dangerous ordinance has the deceptive and Orwellian name “The Safe Streets/Weapons Registration Act.” has nothing to do with safe streets and very little to do with registration of guns. It is in itself an affront to freedom.
One section requires registration “of all firearms in accordance with the provisions of this division.” Another prohibits registration of “ handguns, except “those validly registered to a current owner in the county prior to the effective date of this ordinance, and which contain each of the following——a safety mechanism to hinder the use of the handgun by unauthorized users. Such devices shall include, but shall not be limited to, trigger locks, combination handle locks, and solenoid use-limitation devices; and a load indicator device that provides reasonable warning to potential users such that even users unfamiliar with the weapon would be forewarned and would understand the nature of the warning.”’
Wait—what just happened?
What appeared to be an egregious gun-registration plan turned into gun confiscation. How? Unless your gun has the “load indicator,” which most don’t because no half-way intelligent gun owner would use to determine whether a firearm is loaded. Thus absent this, Beavers’ ordinance requires you to surrender it to your liberal betters. Suffredin’s racket is entitled the “Cook County Deadly Weapons Dealer Control Ordinance.” It would prohibit a gun shop from being located within 10 miles of another gun shop or within one mile of a school. Apparently democrats handwringing over lost jobs extends only to union auto workers or anyone who blames their unemployment on Wal-Mart. Law-abiding, small business owners and their employees’ jobs must be sacrificed at the altar of liberal fascism.
Not only are these ordinances bad public policy, and at odds with the U.S. Constitution, they probably violate the Illinois Constitution because home-rule municipalities have their own ordinances, which take priority over those of any county. (Art. VII, Sec. 6, Illinois State Constitution). Even those who aren’t concerned about 2nd d amendment rights should ask themselves “do we really want to elect someone as the chief law enforcement official of the county who, at best does not know the law, or more likely, is willing to promote unconstitutional legislation when he perceives that it will be politically expedient?”
Good question. Beavers has apparently withdrawn the legislation. As we know liberals are relentless in their determination to control every aspect of our lives, so don’t be surprised if the legislation returns when he thinks he can sneak it in under the radar. Suffredin’s has been tabled until after the February 5 primary, after which he thinks he can safely proceed with his machinations. That’s something to think about when you cast your vote.
That episode of “Oprah” about women defending themselves against violent criminals had a take-home lesson. It is this: when confronting a dangerous miscreant who wants to do us harm, we need to listen to that little voice in our heads. Our intuition is a powerful weapon. I think that’s good advice, but personally, as a woman, I’d also like to have another weapon, one that fits nicely in my hand—one that would give me a fighting chance against someone who wants to rape or kill me.
Regardless of what Suffredin,, Beavers and any other cabal of conniving politicians think is best for me, I want to exercise my God-given right to choose that weapon.
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Teri O’Brien is a lawyer and talk show host who writes occasionally for The Chicago Daily Observer.
Commentary:
http://cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/the-choice-cook-county-democrats-want-to-deny-women738/
Meh... it’s not like we’ve used them for that purpose in FAR too long. May as well drop that line of reasoning altogether. Not because it isn’t still valid, but because no one still has the balls to use it.
This is born out by the killing of 5 women in a Chicago mall documented on this thread Chicago is well known for its strict gun control laws.
The money trail.....
LOL. Utah: 4 out of 100 points, tied for 44th place.
Neener neener :o)
That list the Brady Campaign is a good one to have. To know where you shouldn’t live or to which states you should not move your business.
Very handy.
Yes, it is. Most states weren't a surprise, but there was at least one that I wouldn't have guessed its place.
Texas came in 29th which was a surprise. We need to get working to further drop its rank.
I'd like to see some zeros myself. Kentucky and Oklahoma are doing very well, tied at 2; Alaska, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, and Utah are also holding up well at 4.
I am a little surprised that the "Gunshine State" of Florida managed only an eight and "no-permit-needed" Vermont a nine.
(Figures from the Brady Campaign's State Scorecard Ratings.)
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