{"id":89116,"date":"2023-01-06T21:27:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T03:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89116"},"modified":"2023-01-06T21:27:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T03:27:41","slug":"89116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89116","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunfacts.info\/blog\/ranking-redux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ranking Redux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everytown for Gun Safety is rank. And by that, we mean their state gun control law ranking system is rank(ed at the top of the silliness scale).<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-inherit\">Takeaways<\/h2>\n<p>Everytown\u2019s state law ranking system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is arbitrary, lacking any criminological basis.<\/li>\n<li>Shows very little gun violence variability between states based on their gun laws.<\/li>\n<li>Omits the most violent district, which has stringent gun laws.<\/li>\n<li>Includes suicides, which are inappropriate in such an analysis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"font-inherit\">Echoing the Brady Campaign<\/h2>\n<p>The moribund Brady Campaign (or whatever they are calling themselves this week) used to produce a state gun law scorecard every year. It was, in a word, a gun control wish list and nothing more. We keep their last scorecard criteria to reference their arbitrary scoring system for reference and a few laughs (whichever laws they were promoting that year tended get a higher score).<span id=\"more-7200\"><\/span><\/p>\n<table class=\"alignright\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3443\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunfacts.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ASSORTED-GUN-CONTROL-MYTHS-Brady-Campaign-State-Scorecard-vs-Violent-Crime-Rates.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3443 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gunfacts.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ASSORTED-GUN-CONTROL-MYTHS-Brady-Campaign-State-Scorecard-vs-Violent-Crime-Rates-400x301.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gunfacts.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ASSORTED-GUN-CONTROL-MYTHS-Brady-Campaign-State-Scorecard-vs-Violent-Crime-Rates-400x301.png 400w, https:\/\/www.gunfacts.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ASSORTED-GUN-CONTROL-MYTHS-Brady-Campaign-State-Scorecard-vs-Violent-Crime-Rates-800x602.png 800w, https:\/\/www.gunfacts.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ASSORTED-GUN-CONTROL-MYTHS-Brady-Campaign-State-Scorecard-vs-Violent-Crime-Rates-399x300.png 399w, https:\/\/www.gunfacts.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ASSORTED-GUN-CONTROL-MYTHS-Brady-Campaign-State-Scorecard-vs-Violent-Crime-Rates.png 1527w\" alt=\"Brady Campaign State Scorecard vs Violent Crime Rates\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3443\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click for larger, sharable version<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7203\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunfacts.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Everytown-Gun-Law-Ranking-and-Homicide-Rates.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7203 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gunfacts.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Everytown-Gun-Law-Ranking-and-Homicide-Rates-400x282.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gunfacts.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Everytown-Gun-Law-Ranking-and-Homicide-Rates-400x282.png 400w, https:\/\/www.gunfacts.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Everytown-Gun-Law-Ranking-and-Homicide-Rates-800x565.png 800w, https:\/\/www.gunfacts.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Everytown-Gun-Law-Ranking-and-Homicide-Rates-768x542.png 768w, https:\/\/www.gunfacts.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Everytown-Gun-Law-Ranking-and-Homicide-Rates.png 1200w\" alt=\"Everytown Gun Law Ranking and Homicide Rates\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click for larger, sharable version<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>We would dutifully produce a scatter diagram each year showing the utter lack of correlation between the Brady Campaign scorecard and any variety of crime.<\/p>\n<div class=\"710dfb0ba50956f0931735b37685b9a7\" data-index=\"4\">\n<div id=\"amzn_assoc_ad_div_adunit0_1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Brady Campaign quit producing their scorecard some time after we demonstrated that the states with \u201cstrongest\u201d and most \u201clax\u201d gun laws had identical rates of violent crime (in this last chart we made, blue California on the left and red Arizona on the right).<\/p>\n<p>With the Brady Campaign largely forgotten, Everytown for Gun Safety picked up the slack and started producing their own \u201cranking\u201d system<\/p>\n<p>Same game, new player.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-inherit\">Blighted Everytown<\/h2>\n<p>The headline element of note is that Everytown\u2019s ranking system doesn\u2019t actually prove their point. Quite the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Here we took their ranking and graphed it against both gun homicides and all modes of homicides. Though the slope of the line does rise as Everytown\u2019s arbitrary rankings drop (left-to-right, \u201cstrongest\u201d to most \u201clax\u201d) the rise is minuscule.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, the vertical scattering of points shows high volatility all the way from California to Mississippi. For the statistics junkies, that\u2019s an\u00a0<em>R<\/em><sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0of 0.02 for gun homicides, which basically means no correlation between Everytown\u2019s gun law rankings and actual gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s list some of the \u201cresearch\u201d sins Everytown committed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They omitted Washington, DC, which year in and year out is the murder capital as well as of the nation. The District also has stringent gun control laws, so this omission is blatant data rigging.<\/li>\n<li>In their analysis, Everytown included suicides. We have shown, using a more appropriate international scale, that there is no correlation between gun availability and suicide rates. This is because the probability of someone wanting to commit suicide is based instead on external factors and cultural attitudes about suicide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let\u2019s score their scorecard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No criminology basis.<\/li>\n<li>Excludes important datapoint.<\/li>\n<li>Includes inappropriate data.<\/li>\n<li>Composed via an arbitrary wish list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In short, meaningless equine effluvium.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-inherit\">Everytown Dumbs Things Down<\/h2>\n<p>We expect advocacy groups (Everytown, NRA\u2026 doesn\u2019t matter) to promote their causes. But to present the public with wantonly dubious and disastrously constructed \u201cresearch\u201d only helps to destroy their own brand and weaken their mission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranking Redux Everytown for Gun Safety is rank. And by that, we mean their state gun control law ranking system is rank(ed at the top of the silliness scale). Takeaways Everytown\u2019s state law ranking system: Is arbitrary, lacking any criminological basis. Shows very little gun violence variability between states based on their gun laws. 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