Brady BS

[Bill of Rights]

I got curious yesterday and took a peek at the Brady website "grades" for the various states, last updated in 2005. I wrote down (OK, typed) each state's grade and found that there were seven As (including +/- modifiers), three Bs, eight Cs, 22 Ds, and 10 Fs.

Then I went to the US DOJ and pulled violent crime statistics for each state also, for 2006, the year after the Brady grades were last issued, and found that of the top 13 safest states, four had Fs, seven had Ds, one had a C and one had a B.

Interestingly, the most dangerous place in America to live was not graded at all. The highest state violent crime index, at 765.5 per 100,000 people was South Carolina, with a D+, but the most dangerous place, with nearly twice as many violent crimes at 1508.4 per 100,000 was....


Washington, D.C.

1508:100K means, if I've figured it correctly, that for every 200 people, you could reasonably expect three to be a victim of a criminal assault/battery, rape, or homicide.

Gun control saves lives all right... of criminals.

Blessings,
B

[MeAgain]

I did my own analyst weeks ago comparing same data, and came to same conclusion as you did

but the Brady Bunch dont wanna hear this tho .

[tattedupboy]

I have perused the Brady website a few times in the past few weeks and have found a lot of what is written amusing. For instance, in addition to the data on the most dangerous states, I found that one of their reasons for banning assault weapons was that "...their pistol grips allow them to be spray fired from the hip." Furthermore, according to the Brady Bunch, so called "sporting rifles" are okay in civilian hands because they are shoulder fired and require the shooter to aim the weapon. Apparently, based on this logic, the Bradys believe that criminals don't use these so-called sporting rifles to commit crimes and that it is better that they be required to kill by aiming instead of spray firing from the hip. Correct me if I'm wrong, but whether a criminal aims a shoulder-fired weapon or spray fires from the hip, their victims are just as dead either way, are they not?

[bplv]

So, they want criminals to have more accurate shooting technique... i.e. aiming, and thus want the less accurate method banned?

[Bill of Rights]

I want to know when they're coming out with more "grades", because I'm fairly certain that IN currently would have dropped from a D to that coveted F... and when the two bills I've posted about in the Indiana forum become law, we may even be the first F- ! What I'd love to see would be for them to create a whole new grade just for us... A, B, C, D, F, and 0 (zero). You can't do much better than that!

Blessings,
B

[Stubob]

Is the information that you gathered in a word doc? Would you be interested in putting that in an article or sending so that it could be posted.

great information.

[Bill of Rights]

The stuff I collected, I did in MS-Excel, but sure, I can send it on through to you. I'll get that out in the next day or so.

Blessings,
B

[pioneer461]

Trouble is, when many of our friends in the major media have a question about guns for a story, they go to the Brady Campaign, or the Violence Policy Center, etc. They almost never go to the NRA, GOA etc. for information on firearms. That is why we see so many errors in news stories that have anything to do with firearms or self defense. With the anti-gun organizations in the editor's Rolodexes for gun questions, the same old lies are repeated over and over again. They don't want the truth, because the truth is not on their agenda and makes them uncomfortable.

It is information that we see here that will never see the light of day with the Fourth Estate (or is that Fifth Column?). It's up to us to keep the truth out there.

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