They have strict gun control in the (87% Democrat) District of Columbia, and you are six times more likely to be shot there than you are in Arizona.
https://spreadsheets0.google.com/
Practically everybody is armed in Colorado, and we have one of the lowest murder rates in the country.
Steven,
Thanks for the continued truth countering the incessant media nonsense about Arizona. This is a beautiful place with a lots of wonderful folks – and it’s all the great people that never make the headlines. The other fantasy the media seems fixated on is the membership of the Tea Party.
http://sweasel.com/archives/7524
I thinks this sums up my feelings exactly.
And that is where all 535 congressmen/women work. And how many have been killed there? And we need a new LAW to protect them?
Yea, like Siberia needs ice cubes!
The common lore here in Virginia (about 2 hours south of D.C.) is never give the finger to or harrass someone in a car with D.C. plates. It is alleged that 1 out of 3 cars with D.C. tags is packing, in spite of their laws.