Average violent crime rate of the 8 F-ranked states is 339.6.
Average violent crime rate of the 8 highest ranked states, 6 As and the two highest Bs, is 489.0
Looks like a pretty solid correlation to me.
I'm guessing that DC's stats were included with Maryland, right?
Nope. DC's in a league of it's own. I don't know about 2003 but in 2002 they had a violent crime rate of 1737.
Needless to say, the Brady bunch would give them an A+++.
No doubt.
D.C. is the model for what the Brady's have in mind for the entire country if they ever get the "right" people in charge of congress and the White house again. If the Clinton Democrats had not lost control of congress in '94 the Brady's plans for a virtually gun-free U.S. would now be a lot closer to reality than it is today. I know the GOP in general leaves a lot to be desired in regard to 2nd amendment issues, but the Newster's '94 takeover of congress at least ended Clinton's and the Brady's wet dream of disarming most American gun owners during his next six years in office.
Now if Tom Delay and this congress can keep the AWB from being renewed this year I may have to speak a bit more kindly of Republican pols than I have in the recent past. But if they don't stop it and GW signs a renewed AWB into law, that would indicate to me once and for all that the GOP betrayal and abandonment of it's conservative base is now settled GOP policy, and is probably irreversible.