The anti-gun group Brady has seen fit to be lord and emperor of deciding according to them what make a safe state is more gun control laws.

So they have established their own grading system to use for Public Relation purposes.


Brady grades get an F again

The Brady Campaign ranks North Dakota 44th out of 50 States, with only 4 of 100 possible points.

Just in time for the North Dakota Attorney General to announce that in 2008 the State had ZERO gun homicides. And only two homicides at all, both stabbings.
Brady bunch rating North Dakota
http://www.stategunlaws.org/viewstate.php?st=ND

http://www.kxmb.com/t/schools/313515.asp

Less Murders in ND in 2008
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says North Dakota has had only two murders so far this year. He says that's the lowest yearly number for the state in at least 30 years.

Stenehjem says North Dakota averages about 11 homicides annually for the past several years, after a high of 22 in 1993. 16 were reported last year.

Both homicide victims in North Dakota this year were stabbed to death.

Forty-three-year-old Paula Hartze, a teacher at the North Dakota School for the Deaf, was killed in her Devils Lake home in March.

An acquaintance, Billy Eagleman, is awaiting sentencing for her death.

Thirty-year-old Alden Fast Horse of Cannon Ball was stabbed to death at a Bismarck hotel in June. Two men have been charged with his death - one has pleaded guilty the other not guilty to murder.

Stenehjem says statistics show about half North Dakota's homicide victims die as a result of domestic violence. He says this year is the first year that where that was not the case
So how did North Dakota with its apparent lack of gun control laws according to the Brady bunch still have such a low homicide rate. Better yet achive a Zero homicide with firearms in 2008 WITHOUT ALL THOSE EXTRA GUN CONTROL LAWS?

Shouldn't the opposite be true, weak gun control laws means more crime according to the anti-gunners.