Most U.S. States Don't Make the Grade When it Comes to Gun Violence Prevention Laws

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=41592 ^

[ArrogantBustard]

Virginia only rates a pathetic C- from these @$$holes .... we need to work on increasing children's freedom ... I won't be satisfied until we rate a solid F-.

[HMFIC]

Agreed. I am surprised that we did that bad! Must be counties like Fairfax screwing us up!

Keep fighting, we're winning!

[Still Thinking]

Thirty-one states get a "D" or an "F" in measurements of the gun laws in those states, according to nationwide ratings released today by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence united with the Million Mom March in partnership with state-based gun violence prevention organizations across the nation.

Which translates into an "A" or a "B" in understanding the Constitution and proper role of government, a much more important ranking. More work to do in 19 states though, I see.

[btcusn]

At least in Texas, the CCL certification is not automatic.

It should be!!
Jack

[Still Thinking]

I wish I lived in a 'F' state by their criteria. Ohio is only a D- :(

I'm thinking of calling them up and asking, out of the states that received an "F", which was the absolute "worst" (best). When they ask why I want to know, I'll tell them I'm doing research on where I want to live!

[RicocheT]

"Gun Violence Prevention Laws" is Brady New-speak.

It means "disarm the sheeple so the New World Government police can keep the masses controlled and working like slaves to serve the Elite Masters."

[ArrogantBustard]

Last legislative session, Fairfax County, Norfolk, and similar got their @$$es handed to them ... the preemption laws were strengthened. The Virginia Citizens Defense League takes point on this sort of thing ... check us out.

[ezo4]

"Let me guess, the states with the highest crime rates got the best grade???"

Guess What? The murder capital of the country recieved a B+

Go figure.

How dumb is this?

[CSM]

More proof that the liberal policy is about intent, not results. I especially appreciate your comments about the A and B grades going to the most dangerous places while the F grades go to the safest. In a liberal's mind black is white and up is down. As long as you can feel good about being shot at, keep passing more laws!

[HMFIC]

Been there and I teach NRA classes in Richmond and NEVER EVER fail to point my students in your direction. Keep up the good work. I donate and probably should join. I'm a lifer in NRA and GOA.

[TXnMA]

What?!? Only a "D-minus" for Texas?!?

I demand a recount! Where the h3!! is our "F"?

What do we need to do to get it? Shoot a few Brady Bunch idiots?

(Note that I did not say, "That can be arranged...")

[HMFIC]

PS: Well done in fairfax when y'all showed up in force after the Fairfax nazi cops locked up the two guys open-carrying.

KUDOS!

[Dead Corpse]

Texas doesn't deserve it. Put an Alaska style carry law in to effect here and THEN you'll rate an "F".

[coloradan]

1. Gun related crime is quite high there.

2. What would it matter if it weren't? As Archie Bunker used to say, would it matter if they were pushed outta windows? Put another way, would you rather live in a place with lots of guns and 3 murders/100,000 per year, and they are all gun homicides, or another place with strict gun control and 15 murders/100,000 per year, whether they are shooting deaths or strangulations? The gun grabbers don't even go so far as to look at the crime rates, they just look at the laws and say some places fall short. It's beyond merely short-sighted. It's just plain stupid.

[ArrogantBustard]

I missed that event ... was out of town. Kudos to all who were there, though!

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

What about Massofcommiechusetts, where the RinoGovernor pretty much erased the right to bear arms and replaced it with the opportunity to pay a lot of money for the chance to beg the lords for the privelidge to hunt ducks?

That state slid further into the abyss.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

They're not misinformed, they are evil bastards to the core.

[lilylangtree]

These jerks want to eliminate our "right to bear arms" the first freedom to fall under tyranny.

[basil]

I know--I was just trying to be polite---like they are---NOT!

[calex59]

Ok, you notice that what they don't say, and that is the important part. What they do say is these states get a D or an F on gun control laws they say nothing about the crime rate. The truth is, the states they have singled out here have the lowest crime rates in the US. They are the right to carry states. This says it all. They are trying to make people who don't know any better think these states have high crime rates when in reality all they are crabbing about is the fact that these states haven't diasrmed their law abiding citizens. Another effort to brainwash the public.