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Ev Nappen on VPC state rankings
Ev Nappen has a column in the Union Leader on the subject.
"The VPC dares not look at the bottom seven states instead of the arbitrary five. That is because, lo and behold, New Hampshire ranks seventh from the bottom in per capita gun deaths. New Hampshire is undeniably a strong pro-gun state that greatly respects the individual right to keep and bear arms.
New Hampshire is beaten only by sixth-place Connecticut, the home of "Gun Valley," a major area of gun making in the United States. For that matter, all of New England is in the bottom 12....
he VPC also has to purposely limit its selectively picked data to states rather than cities. This is because the one jurisdiction with the strictest gun control in the entire nation is the District of Columbia. In D.C., all handguns are banned, long arms must be stored disassembled, locked and unloaded, and law-abiding citizens have no right to carry guns. According to the same 2005 CDC data relied upon by the VPC, D.C. has the highest rate of shooting deaths of any place in the United States! The district has well over double the national average."
Hat tip to reader Jack Anderson...
Comments
I can't wait to see what Howard Nemerov does to this fraud perpetrated by the VPC.
Google the scholar Howard Nemerov if you are not familiar with the brilliant work he does to debunk the lies which are being spread by so many people in the media.
Posted by: Tarn Helm at May 5, 2008 02:27 PM