Reply #38: To you, maybe.

[TPaine7]

thermometers don't measure weight

They measure temperature.

Amazing, ain't it???

To you, maybe. Glad to see you're furthering your education.

I do believe that the organization in question is aware that there are no moats around the various states of the US, and thus that any effort to "measure" the effects of laws in force in one jurisdiction would not be measuring any such thing.

This has nothing to do with moats--and everything to do with living up to their billing. They call themselves The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, yet they rank states not on how well they do in preventing gun violence, but on how well they do in suppressing or infringing Second Amendment rights. If the lack of moats--or any other pretext--means that they cannot measure how well states do in preventing gun violence, then the honest thing to do would be to not hand out grades at all. Or they could change their name to The Brady Campaign to Suppress Second Amendment Rights.

Basic honesty. It's even more fundamental than your recent discoveries about thermometers, temperature and weight.