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The world according to Brady (Part 3)
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(Photo courtesy of Oleg Volk)
In a previous article, we examined how the Brady Campaign’s agenda is aligned with civilian disarmament. Now let’s finish this series with a few more examples of how little Brady cares about you, a regular American who simply wants what the Declaration of Independence promised us:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Brady has a curious habit of exempting the District of Columbia from their report cards, even though they considered DC’s gun ban important enough to file a friend-of-the-court brief, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve the ban because Brady claimed the Second Amendment was about the militia:
Contrary to the lower court, the Framers did not envision the guarantee of a right to possess guns for private purposes as the means of arming the militia. The arming of the militia was a matter of government command, not individual choice, and was regulated by statute. The lower court’s dangerous claim that the right of persons in the “unorganized militia” to be armed for “self-defense” extends to armed resistance to a government perceived as “tyrannical” is contradicted by the Second Amendment’s own expressed objective of ensuring “the security of a free State,” and by the Militia Clauses of Article I, which give Congress the power to call out the militia to “suppress Insurrections.”
Trying to wrap one’s mind around the tortured logic in the paragraph above serves as a reminder that delusion is one of the symptoms of gun control addiction.
But because the authors of Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom didn’t evaluate the District of Columbia–with its unusually high violent crime rate–DC isn’t included here.
Because the Brady report card scores are so abysmal–according to Brady’s criteria–when sorting by these values we will divide states’ scores into qualitative quartiles: So-So (50+); Hopefully Getting There (20-50); Bad With Glimmers of Hope (10-19); Rotten Place to Live (0-9).
Brady scores versus economic and personal freedom
When sorted ascending by the Brady quartiles, the two main indices of Economic Freedom and Personal Freedom both maintain clear negative correlations to Brady scores: as a state’s Brady score improves, people have less economic and personal freedom.
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(In these three graphs, position 1 represents the Rotten Place to Live states, position 2 Bad With Glimmers of Hope states, position 3 the Hopefully Getting There states, and position 4 the So-So states which nevertheless earned Brady’s highest scores.)
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Carl Moody, Economics Professor at William and Mary, and co-author with Dave Kopel and me on a published paper, was kind enough to analyze the data from an earlier article. His response:
When I did the regressions, I found that Economic freedom, Overall freedom, and Personal freedom were all negatively correlated with Brady score, significant at the .01 level (highly significant). Violent crime and LEO rates were positively correlated with Brady at the .001 level (very highly significant).
Sorting by Brady quartiles, the three graphs above still show very strong, negative correlations. (Both have R-values over .90; read here for a brief description of R-values.) As Brady scores increase, personal and economic freedoms decrease.
Sorting the other direction
As noted above, because the District of Columbia is excluded, 50 states allows for a simple division into 5 quintiles of 10 states each.
Sorting ascending by the Economic Freedom index creates the following two graphs. States in quintile 1 (position 1 below) have the lowest Economic Freedom scores, and quintile 5 (position 5 in the graph) have the highest scores.
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As economic freedom increases, Brady scores decrease in a very significant way. (Again, the R-value is over 0.90, a very strong correlation.)
Sorting ascending by the Personal Freedom Index results in similar results, as shown by the two graphs below. (Once more, the R-value is over 0.90, a very strong correlation.) As Personal Freedom grows, Brady scores decrease. No matter which perspective you look from, you see the Brady Campaign Against Freedom.
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Bottom line, Brady’s agenda is more important than:
· Your safety.
· Your freedom.
· Your upward mobility potential.
· Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness.
Starts sounding rather feudalistic, doesn’t it? So who does Brady really represent?
References
All graphs and data cited here are available in Excel format. Email request via bio.
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For in-depth analysis of the issues discussed here, read Howard’s book Four Hundred Years of Gun Control: Why Isn’t It Working?, which deconstructs the gun control agenda and motivates more people to support our civil right of self-defense.
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