That’s it! A battle of the bands - not world domination. The garage punk band (creatively named Charlie Murder) and its members are on a quest to defeat the evil Lord Mortimer and his band Gore Quaffer…in a battle of the bands. The plot is throwaway and the characters themselves aren’t particularly memorable, but the enemies and interludes themselves are. It’s all very by-the-books, as far as the barebones brawler outline. In this nonsensical adventure you guide Charlie through some extremely out there moments, clearing wave after wave of attackers as you progress. He curbstomps fallen enemies and makes an enormous mess out of anyone who gets in his way. Guns, swords, melee, blunt objects…you name it. Charlie actually does murder a ton of people. It’s a violent thrill ride with over-the-top action and gore that trumps the previous games from the developer, both in terms of absurdity and gameplay. Charlie Murder is the latest hyperactive beat-’em-up to join the ranks of the other Ska Studios works on the Xbox Live Arcade. It’s clear Ska Studios founder James Silva has talent to showcase, but it’s felt wasted on games that resemble the scribblings of an angsty high school student who’s read far too many Jhonen Vasquez works. The correct average is 0.2 per 100,000 people.Ska Studios has been a quirky developer from the very beginning, with the abysmal I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1 acting as a gateway to The Dishwasher, a schizophrenic brawler if there ever was one. * Correction, April 22, 2013: This report incorrectly stated the national average of law-enforcement agents feloniously killed with a firearm from 2002 through 2011. To see each of the top 10 state fact sheets, visit the following links: Charles Posner is the State Communications Assistant at the Center. Chelsea Parsons is Associate Director of Crime and Firearms Policy at the Center.
While the strength of a state’s gun laws is just one factor in the prevalence of gun-related violence in the state and cannot alone account for gun violence, there is a clear link between weak gun laws and high levels of gun violence across the United States.Īrkadi Gerney is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence analysis shows that eight of these states are among the 25 states with the weakest gun laws. Our analysis determined that the following are the 10 states, by rank, that suffer the highest levels of gun violence: Finally, we compare this overall state gun-violence ranking with a Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence ranking of states based on the strength of their gun laws. Using these data, we rank each state according to the rate of each indicator of gun violence and create an overall ranking of the states across all 10 indicators, resulting in an overall state ranking for the prevalence of gun violence. Percentage of crime guns with a short “time to crime” in 2009.Aggravated assaults with a firearm in 2011.Law-enforcement agents feloniously killed with a firearm from 2002 through 2011.Firearm deaths among children ages 0 to 17, from 2001 through 2010.Firearm homicides among women from 2001 through 2010.Overall firearm deaths from 2001 through 2010.The data analyzed in this report relate to the following 10 indicators of gun violence: Across the key indicators of gun violence that we analyzed, the 10 states with the weakest gun laws collectively have an aggregate level of gun violence that is more than twice as high-104 percent higher, in fact-than the 10 states with the strongest gun laws. Any study into the causes of gun violence is necessarily complicated, however, as there are innumerable factors that contribute to the nature and prevalence of gun-related violence in any community.ĭespite this complex web of factors that influence the rate of gun violence, this report finds a clear link between high levels of gun violence and weak state gun laws. In the aftermath of mass shootings and other gun-related tragedies, there is often a surge of interest on the part of community leaders, social-science researchers, and elected officials to root out the causes of gun violence in an effort to prevent such tragedies from occurring again. See also: Interactive: Measuring Gun Violence Across the 50 States by Emma Shapiro and Charles Posner
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