The Brady Bunch (no link from me) puts up yearly state rankings of how strong a state's gun laws are. They rank states based on a 100 point scale with the strictest, most stringent laws getting a higher score than laws that more nearly mesh with the Constitution.
I live in a very gun friendly state: Louisiana scored a whopping two (2) points on their scale. I had to scroll for awhile and we got two points because "Colleges are not forced to allow firearms on campus." If my experience on college campuses is any indication, it's true that colleges aren't forced to allow guns on campus. Most of them follow the common-sense idea that guns on campus aren't really a problem, and if it isn't a problem, it isn't a problem.
Just to give you some indication, Texas scored nine (9) points, while Massachusetts scored 54 points and New York scored 50 points. Pore ole California scored a dismal 79 points and Vermont scored 8 out of 100 points. The only state that scored better than Lousiana is Utah, with a total score of zero, null. The big -0-.
I love living in a gun friendly state.
Hat tip Say Uncle
That is NICE!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat'd florida score? I'm hoping to get my CCW in a few months... hoping the loops aren't too bad.
ReplyDeleteJoey - Florida ranks 6 points. You're going to get that CCW easily.
ReplyDeleteI see Georgia got a ranking of 8. That's good, but we have some proposed bills that, if they pass, will drop the ranking a few more points.
ReplyDeleteSo 100% is a perfect score. I wonder what the USSR in the 1980's would be, considering the bulk of the population had no guns, but when the republics broke away, armed insurrection occurred.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to compare nations around the world using this 100 point scale, and cross match them to the murder and robbery rates.
Wahoo! Oklahoma is a 2 also.
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