States with weak gun violence prevention laws and higher rates of gun ownership have the highest overall gun death rates in the nation, according to a Violence Policy Center (VPC) analysis of new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
Meanwhile, states with the lowest overall gun death rates have lower rates of gun ownership and some of the strongest gun violence prevention laws in the nation. However, even in these states the human toll of gun violence remains unacceptably high and far exceeds the gun death rate in most Western industrialized nations.
The five states with the highest per capita gun death rates in 2011 were Louisiana, Mississippi, Alaska, Wyoming, and Montana. Each of these states has extremely lax gun violence prevention laws as well as a higher rate of gun ownership. The state with the lowest gun death rate in the nation was Rhode Island, followed by Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey. Each of these states has strong gun violence prevention laws and has a lower rate of gun ownership.
Why is Alaska always on these bad lists?
Look before all of you sad little gun fetishists start to panic, nobody wants to keep law abiding citizens from owning a gun.
I completely understand that Viagra is expensive, loud noises frighten you, and that you have the muscle mass of a quadriplegic, so without your arsenal of bang sticks you feel lost, impotent, and confused.
However there are people who are careless with firearms, emotionally ill equipped to handle them, or mentally deranged and possibly homicidal, and surely everybody would agree that these people should not be trusted to own or handle instruments of death that can kill even fathers of newborns from all the way across the street.
We just want to send our children to school knowing hey are safe, attend a movie without having to wear a flack jacket, and shop in the mall without scanning the food court for armed assailants.
In other words we just want to live in the America that existed before the NRA started pushing gun ownership like that creepy guy in the van hands out free samples of meth to the neighborhood children. (The first taste is always free.)
In my opinion our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, outweighs the right of ammosexuals to walk around feeling like a bad ass.
OT but delightful, nevertheless
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Don't let the door hit your fat ass on your way out, Chris.
Republican Presidential Candidates Keep Getting Prosecuted
DeleteIn the wake of Mitt Romney’s 2012 defeat, Republicans had at least one consolation: a deep bench of presidential contenders, including several governors with a proven ability to win majorities in blue states. Unfortunately, a large number of them appear to be criminals.
Bob McDonnell
Chris Christie
Scott Walker
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/06/2016-gop-candidates-keep-getting-prosecuted.html
It sometimes takes awhile, but the Palin curse strikes again!
DeleteBreaking News! Prosecutors: Scott Walker at the Center of a "Criminal Scheme" (Update 6)
Did you notice how Walkers handler kept trying to get him away from the reporters? I sure did and she got more and more frantic as reporters pressed him.
I also noticed the sweat! Mr Smooth Liar with Teflon Suit got a bit rattled and responded with a Sarah Palin word salad.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/19/1308142/-Prosecutors-Scott-Walker-at-the-Center-of-a-Criminal-Scheme
Scandals heat up for Scott Walker and Chris Christie
Deletehttp://www.salon.com/2014/06/19/scandals_heat_up_for_scott_walker_and_chris_christie/
That door that's gonna hit Chris "boom boom" Christie, better be one of those garage sized barn doors! Just Sayin'!
DeleteYou'll notice that there's some correlation between an educated populace and a lower rate of gun deaths. We don't automatically draw our weapons when the Hatfields step over the line by mistake and walk on the McCoys' side of the swamp.
ReplyDeleteInteresting how all the right wing gun nuts always bring up NY as an example of how strict gun laws DON'T work because there is so much rootin' tootin' shootin' going on night and day.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, somehow, we made it onto the list of 5 states with the LOWEST gun death rates. Funny how that worked out, now isn't it?
We write a letter to the editor, instead.
ReplyDeleteYup, and job loss causes unemployment
ReplyDeleteThere's stupid people in every state of the union. I went to get an estimate at the body shop and there was a "herd" of armed tow truck drivers eating lunch on a huge table. The problem was, until a cop happened to come in for an estimate, their loaded guns were unholstered and strategically placed, oh on a chair in the customer waiting area, a two drawer file cabinet, book shelves, etc.
ReplyDeleteI preface saying this with "yes, I know it's a dangerous job", and I agree with that, For a herd of big fellas, it was amazing to watch how quickly they scurried, got their guns, and went to the back room to holster them.
I simply walked out and took my business elsewhere.
They look like ridiculous kids. Dumbing down of America.
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