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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Yeah, it's hard to say really. There are obviously a lot of factors at work. For me that list doesn't so much confirm a correlation between crime and conservatism as it does refute the notion that liberalism or stricter gun laws somehow lead to more crime. If you look back, I was posting the list in response to someone claiming that conservative states had lower crime rates.
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Also some of the other states on that list are what I think of as either frontier type states or back waters. The only state that stands out on the list is Maryland (its the odd man out)
Now what are the safest states to live in?