No, New York's Safe Act didn't make anyone safer

New York is a state that’s been pushing gun control hard for years. Nearly a decade ago, they enacted the SAFE Act, a law that, among other things, created a registry for so-called assault weapons.

Compliance was an absolute joke, but they passed it. Now, as the state has gotten smacked around by the Supreme Court for one bit of anti-gun legislation and is likely to get hammered over the latest nonsense, some are trying to justify gun control as much as they can.

And they do it by claiming that despite the problems with the SAFE Act, gun control has made New York safer. But data from the Centers for Disease Control suggests New York’s tight firearms laws make the state safer, relative to most other states, when it comes to gun-related violence.