MTMilitiaman
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I took last year's Brady grades and put them on an Excel spread sheet with FBI Uniform Crime Statistics and all that jazz. I converted the Brady Grade to a number based on the 4.0 grading scale so they could be graphed quantitatively. The results are very interesting. It shows that there is absolutely no correlation, positive or negative, between gun control and a state's crime rate. Seeing it as a graph makes it pretty clear. The obvious trend is that there is no trend.
Some people might say this is a bad thing, bad news to gun owners, because we can't say gun control equals higher crime. But judicially, it is just as good to us. The prosecution has the burden of proof. If they want to take the 2nd Amendment to court they are going to have to provide proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the 2nd Amendment is at fault for whatever problem they are trying to "solve." If they attempt this through crime statistics, they will fail. For every case they can show gun control seems to have worked, the defense can show a case where it didn't, and it will become blatantly obvious that gun control has little or no influence on a state's violent crime. I had the data with an explanation printed out somewhere. If I find it I will try to scan it and post it on here. Until then, I did a write up here that some may find interesting. If you know your statistics I would like it if you read through it just so you can correct my math as it had been a while since I took STAT216 and some of my terms and numbers may be off.
http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=303758
Some people might say this is a bad thing, bad news to gun owners, because we can't say gun control equals higher crime. But judicially, it is just as good to us. The prosecution has the burden of proof. If they want to take the 2nd Amendment to court they are going to have to provide proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the 2nd Amendment is at fault for whatever problem they are trying to "solve." If they attempt this through crime statistics, they will fail. For every case they can show gun control seems to have worked, the defense can show a case where it didn't, and it will become blatantly obvious that gun control has little or no influence on a state's violent crime. I had the data with an explanation printed out somewhere. If I find it I will try to scan it and post it on here. Until then, I did a write up here that some may find interesting. If you know your statistics I would like it if you read through it just so you can correct my math as it had been a while since I took STAT216 and some of my terms and numbers may be off.
http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=303758