Congratulations Utah!

The Brady anti-gun nuts have come out with their annual scold of "irresponsible" states who refuse to jump on the gun grabber bandwagon.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence this week gave Utah, Arizona and Alaska all scores of zero, and said they “do not have a single common sense gun law on their books.”  (Salt Lake Tribune - Utah Scolded for Gun Laws)

Utahans are taking the news like the rugged westerners they are...

“I’m glad we got a zero from that group. I actually wish we would get a negative score from them — like an F-minus-minus,” said Rep. Curt Oda, R-Clearfield

I hear that.  I was ashamed to see Colorado tied for 17th best on the Brady list.  Must be because of the Mile High Crime city of Denver's restrictive gun laws.

Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman — who this year passed a bill to make the Browning-designed M-1911 handgun the official state firearm — chuckled when he heard that the Brady Campaign gave California the highest score for gun laws among the states.

“Would the head of the Brady Center feel safer walking down the street at midnight in Salt Lake City or in south central Los Angeles?” he asked.

Statistics Show Liberalism is a Mental Disorder

"Crazy" Utah, has less gun crime than "responsible" California.  Alaska has even less.

How about Arizona?  Only in firearm robberies and assaults does California beat Arizona.  California still has a higher firearm murder rate than mean ol' Arizona.  So despite California's multiple violations of people's 2nd Amendment rights, it is still more violent than the Brady Bad Boy States of Utah, Arizona and Alaska.

Vermont, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Idaho have some of the overall lowest gun crimes in the nation, but none cracked the Brady Top 20.

Anti-gun liberals are willfully ignorant
There is no correlation between gun laws and gun crimes.  Indeed, by definition, criminals break the law.  The data does show that restrictive gun laws leave law-abiding citizens unarmed and vulnerable, just the way criminals like their victims. 

Salt Lake Tribune - Utah Scolded for Gun Laws