This is a Right, so it really shouldn't matter. Compare the firearm murder rate in North Dakota with Washington, DC. Roughly the same sized populations, with North Dakota's firearm laws at roughly the opposite end of the spectrum from D.C.
That data alone would refute the author's conclusions.
26 posted on 03/07/2013 9:07:15 PM PST by Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)