1. Wait a minute- now they’re saying Montana is one of the top 10 ‘Gun Death’ states? I’ll have to double check, but I’m pretty certain more people freeze to death in Montana than die a ‘Gun Death’. Especially a violent crime related ‘Gun Death’.

   1. Via UCR 2011- MT Violent crime rate is 267.5/100k. CA Violent Crime rate is 411.1/100k. This, or course, is independent of the firearm ownership rate in MT v CA. I’m pretty sure the rate of ownership in MT is >1:1.

   2. They’re including suicides to inflate the numbers. Both WY and MT have violent crime and murder rates well below those of the anti-rights states, but that doesn’t fit the narrative they want to sell.

2. I’m surprised that Wisconsin has the same score as everything around it, we actually have pretty easy gun laws, other than a 2 day waiting period for handguns. Our carry permits we just got are pretty good, and unlike all the states bordering us we don’t have laws banning all the fun stuff like NFA items (No suppressors allowed in any state bordering WI, I think SBR’s and SBS’s are also limited).

   Now, Bradys, if you’d be so kind as to highlight what you like so we know which to fix, that’d be great.

   1. If you can hold your breath long enough, you can usually download the scorecard, which breaks it out by points scored.

3. And the PDRK is in the top ten lowest gun deaths? Really? I ain’t buyin’ it!

   1. AAAnd…. (Yeah, I know. I’m replying to myself, so I’m clinically insane.) how many of those “gun deaths” are actual murders as opposed to dead goblins from DGUs? The Bradys won’t say!

      1. But the FBI and CDC will say! ~20K are suicides, ~10K are homicides, ~1K are DGUs, and ~600 are accidents.

         Color code for just homicides, and you get a very different looking map.

4. Well, ours would be better if PA didn’t have the laziest legislature in the country.

5. Hey, look at that big fat “F” over ME screwing up their map.

6. @Patrick H.
   It’s a mixed blessing. A “lazy” legislature won’t do much to repeal bad law, but they also won’t do much to make more bad law, either.

   Here in Oregon, it’s been more “blessing” lately – and reportedly, Bloomberg might start funding some of the anti-freedom groups here. Here’s to hoping they stay “lazy.”

7. I see a whole bunch of “Fs” so if the national average is that low, I would say that the Brady Campaign is an abject failure (long live liberty). They are only holding on to a few more slave states. We will be liberated soon.

   I only wish ill upon these petty despots who think they can make a violence-free utopia by disarming me. The examples of Nazi Germany, USSR, PRC, and so on speak otherwise.

   Never register your firearms.
   Do not comply!
   Never Again!
   Molon Labe!

8. I was initially surprised to see California and New York marked blue. Then I was REALLY surprised to see that Michigan and Illinois aren’t colored at all.

   Then I remembered that while those are the 4 states you’re most likely to get robbed, savagely beaten, or murdered in, that doesn’t mean you’ll get shot.

   Because remember, the Bradys would rather you and your whole family get slowly tortured to death by a knife-wielding sociopath than that you kill a single knife-wielding sociopath with a gun.

9. Since when has N.Y. & California have a low gun death rate? I believe this is nothing but blowing smoke up your ass. Plain B.S.

   1. Low gun-death rate, maybe. As we keep trying to remind them, though, there are plenty of ways to murder a man that don’t involve shooting him.

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11. A for CT…. Excuse me while I cry in shame.

12. Every time I see this type of map coming from the gun control side, I notice one blazing detail: they omit DC – the highest in gun murders (2010 data). Those numbers are all skewed. They have included all gun deaths, including suicides. The numbers for gun homicide are quite, quite different.

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