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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Ben on January 06, 2023, 11:37:15 AM
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The 2023 Everytown rankings for state gun laws are out. Hurray! I live in a national failure!!! =D
https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/
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The chart is more enlightening if you change the sort to gun violence rate. It becomes obvious that there isn't very strong correlation between the strength of a state's gun laws and the same state's gun violence rate.
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Once again, they lump suicides in as gun violence.
If you look at murder rates versus gun laws there is no correlation>
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Dang, Oklahoma has slipped and we've passed some decent laws.
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Texas got Constitutional Carry. I would have thought we would get better.
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Here's Brady scores versus murder rates, data is about 12 years old:
https://www.pagunblog.com/2010/10/06/ask-and-you-shall-receive-murder-rates/
(there apparently is a correlation with suicide though).
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Texas got Constitutional Carry. I would have thought we would get better.
I'm glad Missouri beat Texas, but being ranked 12th best is disappointing.
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*expletive deleted*ing Washington.
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Damn !! IL-ANNOY comes in at #7 !! Shows how restrictive our "illustrious democrat leadership" is when it comes to certain "civil rights". [barf]
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Damn !! IL-ANNOY comes in at #7 !! Shows how restrictive our "illustrious democrat leadership" is when it comes to certain "civil rights". [barf]
Just wait a week or so and IL will move into the 1 or 2 slot.
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