What is the point of owning guns?

[Lonestar]

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Vermont is #48 in the Homicide rate(nearly dead last) but in this map it magically has "high incidents of gun violence".


Suuurrreee

[giblets]

2004 election results, by county:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_presidential_election_2004_results_by_county.jpg

It's a remarkably close fit with the map of "share of gun violence 2011".

[Docfeelgood]

In other words, in red counties in outer bum****istan, the three people who live in the county all own 50 guns each and vote Republi-can. But there's no crime because there's only 3 people in the whole county.

Meanwhile, in counties with hundreds of thousands or millions in population, with less monolithic voting patterns, there's more crime because... there's more people... :idiea: Who'da thunkit.

see you know nothing of Harris county

[giblets]

A narrow majority of the voters in Harris County voted for Bush in 2004, thus eliminating gun violence. Same goes for Dallas, which is a far safer place than liberal Austin.

[Docfeelgood]

A narrow majority of the voters in Harris County voted for Bush in 2004, thus eliminating gun violence. Same goes for Dallas, which is a far safer place than liberal Austin.

[Al B. Sure!]

Former Republican presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan did support the Brady bill. They (along with Jimmy Carter) wrote a letter to Congress in 1994, here quoted in the LA Times:

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-05-05/news/mn-54185_1_assault-weapons-ban/2

Reagan also wrote a New York Times op-ed in 1991, entitled "Why I'm for the Brady bill":

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/opinion/why-i-m-for-the-brady-bill.html

[Felch]

2004 election results, by county:

It's a remarkably close fit with the map of "share of gun violence 2011".

I like how MtG took it seriously. As if Maine were some sort of densely populated, post-apocalyptic hellscape.