Brady Campaign Releases State Gun Control Grades

The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence recently released the results of a survey where they gave various states school-grade values based upon the severity of that particular states gun control laws.

California got the highest marks from the Brady Campaign, followed by New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, and New York.

The state receiving the lowest grade in the survey was Utah.

This entire exercise is a farce, as going by the criteria of the Brady Bunch, only California and New Jersey received what they consider passing grades.

Try telling a gun owner in New York that the state doesn’t have tough enough laws restricting firearms ownership.

The report also makes no mention of the fact that the murder rate has been dropping in the U.S. since 1991, nor does it make a comparison of violent crime rates in the cities of the states it views favorably.

Many consider Utah to be a more “rural” state, but an examination of violent crime rates in some major cities reveals some facts that the Brady Bunch gun-grabbers would prefer you didn’t know.

Using data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, let’s do a comparison:

Reports of violent crimes submitted to law for the first six months of 2009 (Latest  available):

Berkeley, California (pop. 101,170): 310
West Jordan, Utah (pop. 105,772): 72

Elizabeth, New Jersey (pop. 124,823): 599
West Valley, Utah (pop. 124,128): 256

Lowell, Massachusetts (pop. 110,136): 553
Provo, Utah (pop 119,189): 76

I could keep going with this, however, I think you get the idea.

And for those of you wanting to accuse me of hand-picking numers to promote my own agenda, consider this:

If you dig deep enough into the Uniform Crime Report and do an analysis of the data, you will find that the state at the top of the Brady Campaign’s “good” list, California, has a violent crime rate that averages 13% higher than the rest of America.

While the state at the bottom of their list, the one that they claim has the least restricive gun control laws, Utah, has a violent crime rate that is 56% lower than Utah’s.

The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence puts California at the top of their list.

Call me crazy, but I’d feel much safer living in Utah.

 

 

 

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