Arizona receives ‘F’ grade from Giffords Law Center over gun laws - KTAR.com
PHOENIX — A national law center gave Arizona the worst possible grade as part of its nationwide annual gun law scorecard.
The Giffords Law Center presented the Grand Canyon State with an ‘F’ grade for 2021, citing the fact that the state continues to have dangerously weak gun laws as a main factor for its grade.
Arizona was one of 24 states to receive an ‘F’ grade.
“States with strong gun safety laws have fewer gun deaths — but trafficking leaves residents of these states vulnerable, too,” Robyn Thomas, executive director of the law center, said in a press release.
The center tracked and reviewed gun legislation across all 50 states and evaluated bills for their relative strength or weakness before ranking states by letter grade.
Arizona ranked No. 42 in gun safety strength and No. 20 in gun deaths, the two main factors for the scorecard.
The state’s gun death rate of 16.7 per 100,000 people was above the national average by 22 percent, according to the scorecard.
The law center is a San Francisco-based nonprofit co-founded by former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, U.S. Senator Mark Kelly.
Its missions is to prevent gun violence.
source: https://ktar.com/story/4899872/arizona-receives-f-grade-from-giffords-law-center-over-gun-laws/
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