Most peaceful, least peaceful U.S. states

WebMD Health News ^ | April 26, 2012 | Cari Nierenberg and Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

[ConservativeStatement]

For the 11th year in a row, Maine is the most peaceful state in America, according to the 2012 United States Peace Index report.

[x]

Notice the least peaceful have a very high number (in most cases a majority) of a certain demographic. Just saying. Coincidence?

Lay off the evangelicals for once, please.

[Tex-Con-Man]

"I have a big head...

...but small arms."

[WildHighlander57]

Guardian 2010 reincarnated?

I used my android based system to click the link..... I won’t use windows system, now that I know there’s malware lurking at that link.

[preacher]

This site has the same article and is safe:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/04/survey-maine-ranked-most-peaceful-state-louisiana-last/1#.T5wTrKumiSo

[ExCTCitizen]

10 most peaceful states:

Maine

It is not peaceful for the lobsters and pine trees...

Vermont

When your state is one big nudist resort (nudity is not ILLEGAL), where can you keep your guns??

New Hampshire

What a nice place to relax....

Really I'm surprised that 4 of the New England States are in the top 10. Rural states are safer but the surprising one is Rhode Island...

[eyedigress]

I just love these idiotic research results. It all anti-gun, anti-people all the time. My Tennessee Home is quite peaceful.
This is an agenda poll.

[Carriage Hill]

They must have sanitized it. My Norton 360 didn’t find anything after a full-system scan.

[Carriage Hill]

Nothing there now; it’s been sanitized.

[Carriage Hill]

Sounds like you’ve got a cookie (or something) from a disreputable malware/av company embedded on your system/HD, doing that crap. I periodically use Windows Explorer to search for “cookies” and delete them all. I got it once from WU, too, years ago, but Norton 360 & Malwarebytes zap all that pesky garbage now.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"So...is availability of guns....a positive or a negative?"

The worst kind of violence is legally owning a gun for self defense, even if you never use it. I think that is what we can learn from this new study.

[who knows what evil?]

When your state is one big nudist resort (nudity is not ILLEGAL), where can you keep your guns??

Don't get excited, guys...Vermont womyn = Elena Kagan.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Maine also has the largest percentage of Caucasians, I think 98%. Coinicidence?

[Chuckster]

Several years ago we were shopping for a home in Vermont. We noticed an interesting thing about virtually ALL the houses we were shown: At least one, and often several, rifles or shotguns near the door. d8^)

[RedMDer]

Click the link. The Republic you save may be your own.

[WildHighlander57]

Many thanks for the info; now I can read with peace of mind :)

[RandallFlagg]

Same here.

[arthurus]

So...is availability of guns....a positive or a negative?

Surely a negative, considering the source and the very use of the phrase, "availability of guns among its residents" instead of "ownership of guns." Availability of guns is considered to be, in itself, violence and certainly not peaceful. Availability of guns is in the category with assault, murder, crimes against property, etc., regardless what is done with the guns. And note it is "availability of guns among its residents," rather than, say, ease ơf acquisition by criminals.

[matthew fuller]

Thanks. I reset my internet options, supposed to clear them now. (except FR).

[Carriage Hill]

Good; glad you’re okay. I’ve been back to that ajc page 11x and have not found any malware/virus etc, and my machine’s clean. I wonder what the others were getting? If their AV apps zapped it, there should be a record of quarantine/deletion, and I’d be interested to know “what” they were hit with.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I just love these idiotic research results. It all anti-gun, anti-people all the time. My Tennessee Home is quite peaceful. This is an agenda poll.

It's fairly peaceful up here...and we're all pretty heavily armed. That's no secret.