Brady Campaign grades and crime rates

Correlation not causation. Perhaps states with higher crime rates make more legislative efforts to reduce the crime rate. Or maybe urban areas have a higher crime rate and States with a higher proportion of urban population also happen to have more Democratic legislators.

Of course deterrence of criminals by armed citizens probably plays a part in lower crime rates too. In fact it may be a major part.

And then of course lets not forget about that little "security of a free state" thing. Hopefully freedom no longer needs a militia to protect it, but I'd rather risk the occasional common criminal than give up my guns to the government.

I agree about a lack of proven causation ... but the Brady's continue to say Less guns=less crime, but their own statistics disprove THAT causation as well.

I guess there's still a "flat earth" society -- but the mainstream media doesn't quote them everytime they publish a story on cross ocean navigation.

Speaking of shady media behavior, check out the nonsense going on in TN with the Commercial Appeal scrubbing comments from their latest BS on publishing the names and addresses of CCW holders:

http://www.wallsofthecity.net/2009/02/comment_autocracy.html

"Correlation is not causation"

If I had a dollar for every time that phrase (or variation) is mis-used on the net I would be very rich.

The first comment says "Correlation, not causation", and in the next sentence posits causation: high crime leads to gun control. Which is probably correct.