Vermont Not At Bottom of “Scorecard”
The arrested adolescents at Brady Bunch headquarters have released their latest “scorecard” regarding state gun laws. You’ll be shocked, — shocked!– to learn that California, NJ, CT, and Massachusetts meet with their approval and earn high grades in denying law abiding citizens the opportunity to practice their Second Amendment rights and also protect their families and selves. Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Utah come in last.
That last actually surprises me since my own state, Vermont is generally considered the most embracing of gun rights and has the least restrictions, including no licenses, permits, no regulations concerning concealed carry, and so on. Alaska comes in near the bottom of the scores.
Even Tennessee is rated “worse” than Vermont. Go figure! The only difference I could detect between the actual detail by detail listings between Tennessee and Vermont is that Tennessee allows. . . well, here’s how the Brady Bunch word it:
Tennessee - The state does allow the use of deadly force as a first resort in public. This dangerous law permits the average citizen to bypass our entire justice system by permitting him or her to assume the role of police officer, prosecutor, judge, and executioner.
Meaning that it’s “dangerous” to allow you — a law abiding citizen — to stop a mutant from killing . . . You! Or your wife, your kids, etc. It would be much better, in their opinion, that the thug kill you and then let the justice system put him on trial.
By the way, as a point of interest, Vermont does allow deadly force to be used to protect yourself but — alas, with no “Castle Doctrine” or “Stand Your Ground” legislation in place, you do have to justify what you did. Hopefully that will change but with all the Massholes moving here, I doubt it will.
Anyway, I figure that an easy way to determine the score on states and their support for personal and home defense is simply to turn the Brady Bunch scorecard upside down. . . . Meanwhile, we in Vermont will just have to work harder to get a failing grade!
24 Responses to “Vermont Not At Bottom of “Scorecard””
on 01 Feb 2008 at 8:19 am # Jacob
I don’t understand how New York went from a B+ to 51%.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 9:16 am # Rey B
Indiana got 8 out of 100. I am so embarrased about those 8 showing up!
on 01 Feb 2008 at 10:03 am # Lazarus Long
For us Vermontas make sure one foot is in the door and the entry wound is on the front side of the corpse.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 11:13 am # Peter Theune
A move of 800 miles west moved me from 56 points (MD) to 4 (MO). I suspect the MO listing should be lower than 4 because the Brady fools list MO as having a waiting period for gun purchase. (it doesn’t).
It smells like freedom out here….
Peter
on 01 Feb 2008 at 12:11 pm # rich
I am sorry to see that I live in the #2 state - oh the shame. I do understand though how NY got to be #6. When most people think New York they think New York CITY and the lunatics there (I lived there for 38 years so I know). They do not think Upstate as it is referred to, where many many people have guns, hunt, shoot and do all those nasty things. Yes there are some hoops to jump through to get a pistol permit but if you are not in a big city it is not too bad.
Upstate balanced out NYC to a certain extent else belive me it wouldbe tied with Calafornia.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 12:59 pm # Matt
Peter - but MO does require a permit to purchase handguns, right? That and the waiting period seem to be bunched together.
Right next door in Kansas, we get 7 out of 100, so that’s not too bad on our part!
on 01 Feb 2008 at 1:17 pm # JD
I guess they don’t look at how dangerous it is now to live in Boston being from MA. . . . Thanks guys for the high rating but I would stay out of our cities if you want to be around next year to make your next list. . . . oh Sorry, you Probably get protection unlike us peasants. . .
on 01 Feb 2008 at 1:24 pm # DëMöN
Matt,
No, the permit to acquire law was repealed when our Castle Doctrine was passed. You can now get a pistol as easily as a rifle in Missouri. I hated having to submit my handgun purchase to the sheriff, he has no business knowing if i own a handgun or not. It also prevented a husband from handing his pistol to his wife without first getting a permit to acquire from her, and same when she handed it back to him. It was a well known Jim Crow law.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 1:31 pm # Robert
I just wish that the Bradians, no matter what state they live in, would forswear use of any arms for sporting, competitive or especially personal defense, this raising the grade of their personal space and person to 100%.
They ought to take an oath. There ought to be a law. They ought to do it for the children. They ought to get in step with the developed nations of the world. They ought to do it for Gaia.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 1:35 pm # Letalis Maximus, Esq.
The Brady Bunch, and others of that ilk, need to just be honest and admit to everyone that they are opposed to the lawful use of violence/deadly force to protect one’s self, loved ones, and property. Pacifism, as it is politely known, is a perfectly honorable way to live one’s life and I for one applaud them for it. However, I don’t applaud, and in fact condemn, their tireless efforts to get the government to impose their religious and social views upon me by outlawing behavior and activity with which they disagree.
Of course, being honest has never gotten them what they want.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 1:56 pm # JimVT
I am grateful that the liberals haven’t yet had the balls to push legislation to kill the 2nd Amendment in VT. The mayor of Burlington (a transplant from Ohio) talked about handgun registration last year and, faster than you can say “NRA,” he was told to shut up. Not a word since.
This is a truly bipolar state.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 2:14 pm # luagha
Except that the Brady Bunch gang (or at least their leaders) don’t actually believe in pacifism. They believe in ‘rights for me but not for thee’. They believe that the powerful, the policitically connected, and the wealthy should have access to guns and guards while the rest of everyone should not so they cannot threaten the status quo. Too many of them have personal weapons and personal licenses for it to be other than the case.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 2:56 pm # MarkD
Teddy Kennedy doesn’t carry a gun. Teddy Kennedy’s bodyguards carry for him. Rosie? Ditto.
Can’t afford a bodyguard? I guess your life, or my life, or our families lives aren’t as important as theirs.
The Brady Bunch are just another bunch of self-appointed elites intent on running your life and mine. I can’t fathom why anyone would listen; they are not exactly competent to manage their own lives, much less mine.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 3:30 pm # Charles Xavier
I am an advocate of the right to self-defense. However, in the fifth paragraph, you pander to anti-mutant prejudice in an attempt to drum up support for your cause. This is simply inexcusable, as well as counterproductive; many other mutants gladly support the right to bear arms.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 4:45 pm # Steve
All righty. Here in AZ we get a 6. I’m trying to figure out where those points came from. Probably the required class for a CCW. I don’t particularly like that rule, but I can live with it.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 5:00 pm # JackOfClubs
Wow, California is at the bottom? And by a big margin, too. I knew it was bad out here but I thought MA and MD had it worse.
So, as I’ve asked before, when are y’all going to invade? We have beaches!
on 01 Feb 2008 at 5:03 pm # straightarrow
Ar. 6, we will try to fail better.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 9:24 pm # Shoot45s
Go Oklahoma Go. Now time to get rid of those 2 measly points.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 9:48 pm # Matt
Colorado has 16 points - SHIT! Any grade (under the old system) better than an F- was completely unacceptable. Under this new, dumbed-down points system (the inner-city ebonics types need to be able to understand - they quit getting grades when they dropped out of high school) even a 1 is failure! Of course, you have to have at least a point for adhering to the tenets of the federal bureaucracy. Why are pussies, such as these morons, allowed to continue breathing air in the greater scheme of survival of the fittest? What pisses me off more is that John Hinckley didn’t miss his target a little more “accurately”…Then we wouldn’t have to listen to these goobers.
on 01 Feb 2008 at 11:09 pm # T-Bolt
I’d love to cut MD in half.
But we would STILL be one of the worst states.
on 02 Feb 2008 at 2:54 am # Wai
Hey JackofClubs, we’re all (well, at least I am) hoping California sinks into the Pacific during the next quake, which should be soon (or so the History Channel says) or at least the parts of California that contain all the freakin’ moonbats.
Umm…Matt…we would then have the likes of Carolyn McCarthy whose husband did die in the Colin Ferguson massacre on the Long Island Railroad. She fails to see that if someone on that train had a lawful CCW handgun, it would have been over before it got any worse. But NYC pretty much banned guns and you know what they say: “Outlaw guns and only outlaws will have guns.” So, for her, getting into politics was personal and she’s making it a personal issue against me, you and every law-abiding citizen in this country. Excuse me if I’m being ignorant, but isn’t she a representative of her constituents, and as such, abide by OUR wishes? So why isn’t she?
You know, Doctors have a Hippocratic Oath (named after Hippocrates) to DO NO HARM. I say politicians should have a similar Hypocritic Oath - to do no harm to our Rights. One where they have to solemnly swear, under punishment of imprisonment or death, that if they swear to uphold the Constitution and then go against it, that they will be jailed or executed for treason, depending on the severity of their crime.
on 02 Feb 2008 at 10:28 am # Lazarus Long
JimVT:
I think the Vermont pols are playing it slow and cool. Instead of creting their own draconian gun laws they are waiting or the Federal.gov to do all of the heavy lifting on the matter. That way they can claim that they (the Progressives and Dems) didn’t have anything to do with it. You can bet that they won’t life a pinky finger or voice a squeek in protest, either.
on 03 Feb 2008 at 12:23 am # Brent G
Jeff,
Interesting that all the Massholes are moving to your neck of the woods. My in-laws are in Maine and they are convinced same are all taking up residence in the Pine Tree State.
Must be a lot of ‘em!!!
BTW, we scored poorly here in Ohio with Brady also. We wear it proudly as a badge of honor!
on 04 Feb 2008 at 3:35 am # SteVe (CT)
Huh, the Bradys really screwed around with their rating system this year. Sure, I’m not happy with the laws we have in CT, but it’s way better than NJ, CA, NY & a few others.