AP Photo/Andrew Selsky A fundamental tenet of the cult of gun control is that more restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms leads to safer communities. A new database unveiled by the RAND Corporation, however, should be enough evidence to create some doubt among those anti-gun activists who’ve still managed to hang on to a shred of their critical thinking skills, because it reveals that some of the safest states in the union have some of the least restrictive gun control laws. According to RAND, researchers looked at 16-years worth of data for in-patient hospitalizations for gun injuries to determine which states had the most and the fewest cases reported, per capita. These hospitalizations include patients treated for all manner of gunshot injuries; violent crime, suicide, accidents, and negligent discharges. If gun control was really the best way to improve public safety, we’d expect that the states with the lowest hospitalization rates would have the most restrictive gun control laws.