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What grade does the Brady Campaign give your state?

How does the Brady Campaign grade your state?

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Click on your state and see hoe the Brady Campaign grades your gun laws.

Brady Campaign - State Gun Laws

I can say that I am proud my state almost failed this test - OH got a D-.

I also note that their site isn't current; OH just recentlky changed its laws to prevent local laws from pre-emting state law -- that certainly gets us an F!

Woohooo!
 
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I am proud to say Florida DID fail
 
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I love how Vermont, with the lowest number of gun deaths per capita in the country, nevertheless gets a D-. You'd think that if they were grading states based on how well they "shield families from gun violence," one of the criteria might be, say, how well they shield families from gun violence. :lol:

Anyway, I'm from Ohio, so we get a D-.
 
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Kandahar said:
I love how Vermont, with the lowest number of gun deaths per capita in the country, nevertheless gets a D-. You'd think that if they were grading states based on how well they "shield families from gun violence," one of the criteria might be, say, how well they shield families from gun violence. :lol:
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Do you suppose their agenda has something less to do with preventing violance and more to do with making it harder for honest, law abiding people to buy/own guns?
:shock:
 
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Goobieman said:
Do you suppose their agenda has something less to do with preventing violance and more to do with making it harder for honest, law abiding people to buy/own guns?
:shock:
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Well obviously.
 
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Kandahar said:
I love how Vermont, with the lowest number of gun deaths per capita in the country, nevertheless gets a D-. You'd think that if they were grading states based on how well they "shield families from gun violence," one of the criteria might be, say, how well they shield families from gun violence. :lol:

Anyway, I'm from Ohio, so we get a D-.
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Yeah I was a little bit surprised by Vermonts grade...oh well I guess you learn something new everyday However I'm happy to say my home state got A-. California baby oh yeah ;)

This is just sad..

Vermont

RECORD KEEPING
May police maintain gun sale records? No

State law forbids police from keeping any record of gun sales. Police are prohibited from maintaining gun sale records that could be used for gun tracing and criminal investigations. The state has no way of knowing whether people who bought guns in the past have become criminals and are no longer allowed to possess firearms. The lack of gun sale records also makes it very difficult to identify and prosecute gun traffickers or gang members that buy guns in bulk and resell them on the street.
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I dont have a problem with people owning guns...but I think the police should know who owns what.
 
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A big fat C here.
 
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C+ here in Wisconsin. We were doing good, up until we got an A+ for our prohibition of carry concealed law. That screwed us up pretty good.
 
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Hatuey said:
This is just sad..
I dont have a problem with people owning guns...but I think the police should know who owns what.
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This is an infringement of the right to arms.
It also does nothing to affect criminals' access to guns.
And, as noted, VT is the state with the fewest gun deaths per capita -- how has the police not knowing who has a gun been detrimental to the safety of the people of VT?
 
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Arkansas gets a D!!!

Hooray!!! We didn't fail!!! GO HAWGS!!! <mouth breathing>
 
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Goobieman said:
This is an infringement of the right to arms.
It also does nothing to affect criminals' access to guns.
And, as noted, VT is the state with the fewest gun deaths per capita -- how has the police not knowing who has a gun been detrimental to the safety of the people of VT?
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Nowhere in the 2nd amendment does it say you have a right to bear arms without the police knowing what arms. If the police require weapon registration, you still get to bear arms...can you elaborate how it is an infringement please? :confused:
 
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South Dakota gets a D
 
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jallman said:
Nowhere in the 2nd amendment does it say you have a right to bear arms without the police knowing what arms. If the police require weapon registration, you still get to bear arms...can you elaborate how it is an infringement please? :confused:
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Simple:
Prior restraint.
Prior restraint is a precondition placed on the exercise of a right not inherent to that right.
Prior Restraint in an infringement.

-Registration is a precondition to the exercise of the right to arms not inherent to the right to arms.
-Registration is Prior Restraint.
-Prior Restraint is an infringement
Thus
-Registration is an in infringement
The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
 
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Goobieman said:
Simple:
Prior restraint.
Prior restraint is a precondition placed on the exercise of a right not inherent to that right.
Prior Restraint in an infringement.

-Registration is a precondition to the exercise of the right to arms not inherent to the right to arms.
-Registration is Prior Restraint.
-Prior Restraint is an infringement
Thus
-Registration is an in infringement
The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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I understand now...thanks for the clarification. :2wave:
 
Yeah! Failed with flying colors woohoo! I love the contact information that they provide for my local Reps, I may just have to send them a nice gift basket next Christmas.:mrgreen: Take that Sarah Brady and shove it in your pie-hole, hopefully more states will join the failure rate in gun control as defined by the Brady Campaign.:2razz:
 
Sorry, meant Representatives, not republicans.:doh
 
Voted "A" because I misread the thread title. Wyoming gets a beautiful F on this test, and the description of the ratings reads like a laundry list of most of what I believe.

The few points I disagree with our law are actually areas in which I would impose more regulation-- primarily with minors requiring parental permission to own firearms.
 
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I'm in Washington with a D+.

i am a little dismayed by this though:

Child Access Prevention Law F NONE
 
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Thelost1 said:
I'm in Washington with a D+.

i am a little dismayed by this though:

Child Access Prevention Law F NONE
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Children are citizens too it would be a direct violation of our constitution if we didnt give them access to guns... besides who else is going to go on school rampages and kill those mean anti-christian/pro-sex education/liberal teachers.
 
Goobieman said:
Click on your state and see hoe the Brady Campaign grades your gun laws.

Brady Campaign - State Gun Laws

I can say that I am proud my state almost failed this test - OH got a D-.

I also note that their site isn't current; OH just recentlky changed its laws to prevent local laws from pre-emting state law -- that certainly gets us an F!

Woohooo!
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I put F for Ohio because that is what It will get once those idiotic city gun bans get flushed in a couple weeks
 
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jallman said:
Nowhere in the 2nd amendment does it say you have a right to bear arms without the police knowing what arms. If the police require weapon registration, you still get to bear arms...can you elaborate how it is an infringement please? :confused:
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that is as stupid as saying the right to vote is not infringed if you have to tell the police who you voted for or telling the police what books you are reading
 
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TurtleDude said:
that is as stupid as saying the right to vote is not infringed if you have to tell the police who you voted for or telling the police what books you are reading
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No, the stupid thing was flapping your jaws before reading further down. I asked for clarification and goobieman gave it with my thanks to follow. You falling over yourself to call someone stupid just left you looking like an a$$, but then...what else is new? :roll:
 
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jallman said:
No, the stupid thing was flapping your jaws before reading further down. I asked for clarification and goobieman gave it with my thanks to follow. You falling over yourself to call someone stupid just left you looking like an a$$, but then...what else is new? :roll:
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wow-woke up on the wrong side of the feather bed did we. Yes I saw it and it appears you did concede it

my bad
 
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TurtleDude said:
that is as stupid as saying the right to vote is not infringed if you have to tell the police who you voted for or telling the police what books you are reading
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Considering for a minute that books aren't used to kill people as much as guns are. How does this argument make a sense?

I think the reason some states ask gun owners to register what guns they own instead of what books you're reading is because if some reason one of them got into a argument went hot headed and decided he was going to kill the person he got into an argument with I'd doubt the first thing he'd say is :

"I'll do it with my Websters dictionary!".

If you own a gun and for some unforseen event want to kill somebody you're probably more likely to go for the gun then for Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Just a thought.
 
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TurtleDude said:
wow-woke up on the wrong side of the feather bed did we. You normally are pretty bright but it is an infringement
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Bah, I'm just firing back. I understand how now...I didn't before I asked though. The problem with it is, I am not so sure its an infringement I want to live without in some places. I am reserving judgment until I have a chance to think about it for a bit.

By the way, sorry I took your head off. Abortion talks...riled up...not distinguishing between friend and foe anymore...please accept my apologies.
 
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