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Today, our colleagues at the Center for American Progress put out an important new study examining the relationship between a state's gun laws and its rate of gun violence. Unsurprisingly, the states with the weakest gun laws tend to also be the states with the highest rates of gun violen
As both common sense and hard data indicate, 8 of these 10 states are among the 25 states with the weakest gun laws. Indeed, the 10 states with the weakest gun laws have more than double the rate of gun violence of the 10 states with the strongest gun laws.
On the flipside, states with strong guns have low levels of gun violence. The five states with the lowest levels of gun violence -- New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Connecticut -- are all among the ten states with the strongest gun laws.
BOTTOM LINE: Gun violence prevention laws matter and they work. It's time for Congress to act .

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)