Author Topic: Everytown 2023 National Rankings on State Gun Laws  (Read 537 times)

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Everytown 2023 National Rankings on State Gun Laws
« on: January 06, 2023, 11:37:15 AM »
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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Re: Everytown 2023 National Rankings on State Gun Laws
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2023, 11:49:09 AM »
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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Re: Everytown 2023 National Rankings on State Gun Laws
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2023, 12:21:44 PM »
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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Re: Everytown 2023 National Rankings on State Gun Laws
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2023, 05:16:25 PM »
Dang, Oklahoma has slipped and we've passed some decent laws.
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Re: Everytown 2023 National Rankings on State Gun Laws
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2023, 08:12:39 PM »
Texas got Constitutional Carry.  I would have thought we would get better. 
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Re: Everytown 2023 National Rankings on State Gun Laws
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2023, 08:15:50 PM »
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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Re: Everytown 2023 National Rankings on State Gun Laws
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2023, 12:35:51 AM »
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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Re: Everytown 2023 National Rankings on State Gun Laws
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2023, 01:17:52 AM »
*expletive deleted*ing Washington.

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Re: Everytown 2023 National Rankings on State Gun Laws
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2023, 11:01:37 PM »
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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Re: Everytown 2023 National Rankings on State Gun Laws
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2023, 07:53:57 AM »
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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