Reply #283: 22 of the top 25 metro areas for crime are in states with weak gun regs

[billbuckhead]

BTW, NEWFLASH! San Diego is in California! Even when you think you win, you shoot yourself in the foot.

Here's FBI ratings showing San Antonio with far worse overall crime than NYC and a higher murder rate. Probably a fairer comparison would be to take all the cities in Texas over 250,000, add them together and then compare them to NYC, of course that would be a disaster for the Texas gun "enthusiast" brigade.
<http://www.bestplaces.net/docs/studies/crime3.aspx>

In fact, 22 of the top 25 metro areas for crime are in states with weak gun regulations. Texas has 4 of the top 25 metro areas for crime, more than the whole west coast including Hawaii.

Also 7 of the ten worst metro areas for murder were in gun friendly states including the top four of New Orleans, Memphis, Gary and Baton Rouge.

Furthermore 20 of the top 25 cities free of crime are in NY, NJ, CA, MA, CT and MI. If it wasn't for a very aging Pennsylvania, the gun "enthiusiast" side would have skunked. BTW, in fairness, I threw out Boston and Philadelphia because metro Philadelphia includes NJ and Boston includes NH. They essentially cancelled each other out. These stats are based on FBI data
<http://www.bestplaces.net/docs/studies/crime3.aspx>