VPC does a “drive-by” “study”


From July 1, 2006, through December 31, 2006, the Violence Policy Center (VPC) used the Google News search engine to collect every reported news article that contained the term “drive by.”

Yeah! That’s some good research there! The hilarious thing is, their study shows that gun control at best does nothing positive. Here’s the table they produce. The number one state in drive-bys, according to their findings, also has some of the strictest gun-control in the nation. They show twice as many drive-bys as their number two, which has fairly reasonable gun laws.

Rank State Number of Drive-Bys Dead Injured
1 California 115 51 123
2 Florida 57 18 47
3 Texas 56 7 41
4 Illinois 24 11 29
5 Ohio 20 3 20
6 North Carolina 19 6 16

The only thing I think this shows is that urban population density along with warm weather is the culprit, not gun availability.

~ by robkeeney on 7 August 2007.

One Response to “VPC does a “drive-by” “study””

  1. appears that people in texas aren’t too good of shots while your best odds of livin are in ohio.but at any rate a bat out the car window pretty much gets em everytime

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