Kyle Becker | On 25, Feb 2013

The Brady Campaign released their “scorecard” for gun control laws, which means that the organization views more gun control as better and less gun control as worst. The scorecard was based on 2011 data.

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The state by state picture shows that there is no statistically significant correlation between the existence of gun control laws and violent crime rates. (The rates per 100,000 are based on the FBI’s estimated number of offenses.)

In addition, many of the nations with the strongest anti-gun laws have higher violent crime rates than those that do not. Thus, there is no rational reason to infringe on the Second Amendment. (It should be noted that this would require Constitutional amendment.)

As John Lott and Bill Landes point out in published research (2000): “National polls showing that people use guns defensively against criminal attacks in the range of 1.5 to 3.5 million times per year.”

Several states have relaxed concealed carry laws in the last few decades, and 49 states (except transitioning Illinois) have some kind of concealed carry permit. The overall U.S. violent crime rate has plunged 70% in the last 20 years.

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