According to a comparison of the FBI’s violent crime statistics and the Brady Campaign for Gun Control’s rankings of gun control laws in the various states there is absolutely no indication that stricter gun control laws do anything except restrict the gun rights of law-abiding citizens:

Using the FBI Uniform Crime Report (2005) and the Brady Campaign Scores on the states (2007) I came up with some interesting information. Starting with the FBI data I added the Brady Scores and added some additional rows and columns. . .

The bottom line is that the assuming someone is murdered then correlation between the Brady Score a particular method of murder are as follows:

Weapon:Correlation
Firearm:0.009
Knife:0.215
Weapon other than firearm (including knives):-0.014
Hands, fists, feet, etc. (including being pushed):-0.180

Correlation is a number between -1.0 and 1.0, inclusive. What the above numbers mean is that a good Brady score does not mean there is a reduction in the the percentage of murders committed with firearms. It may mean there is a slight increase in the percentage of murders committed with knives and a decrease in the percentage of unarmed murders in Brady favored states.

In short: When guns are banned, only criminals have guns

Gun control is nonsense

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