So how would this map look like if you pitted “Right to Vote” and “Right to Free Speech”? I worry when people want to give up ANYTHING in the Bill of Rights. Those rights are pretty basic…

Oh dang!
I’m in a yellow orange state! Please let me keep my pointed stick?
I think the vote IS more important, but then, I think the second amendment is being misrepresented.
It meant that we should become members of the militia (in 1700s) and, any given service now (army, marines, navy {you have to have a boat, too} or something organized).
To protect our country from foreign attack.
But, now-a-days, you stick your gun out your door and shoot at the foreign attackers? Kiss a missile.
oops….

I don’t think this is quite accurate at all. It shows Massachusetts residents as being as a green as it can get for gun rights yet Mass is a quite liberal state.

With a few exceptions, this map is somewhat consistent with lower populations and lower population densities. I note this because states with lower populations get disproportionate elected representation in the senate, and at the same time guns are typically more prevalent, and culturally acceptable in rural areas. So… crazy probably isn’t most likely explanation, but I wouldn’t rule it out completely.

Florida for the win! Never would have thought we would have anything in common with Kansas or New Hampshire.
West Virginia sticks out like a sore thumb. Wow!
However, I would love to see this compared to a State by State Education level chart.

Obviously, the right to vote is essential if one wants to keep the right to bear arms. But I’ve a feeling that for some, the underlying sentiment is more along the lines of “Guns??!!??! OMFG!! Those are for gangsters and crazy-ass coon-skin-cap-wearing southerners!!” To which I can only say that I have always thought that it’s a damn shame that American liberals mirror the mistake of the American right by failing to recognize that things get really sticky, really fast, when you start trying to decide which rights to trust people with. In the end, either you believe that sane adults deserve to be treated as such, or you believe that some big-boy and big-girl decisions are just so dangerous that people shouldn’t be allowed to make a choice. Just as I believe that individual women should have the exclusive right to choose what to do with their own bodies, that government telling same-sex couples whether and how they can marry is insulting and ridiculous, that prosecuting crimes like prostitution is wrong when the transaction involves consenting adults, and that drug laws (all of them) infringe upon my God-give right to choose what I want to do with my own damn body, I also believe that my choice to own firearms isn’t anyone else’s business but my own. Why it’s so difficult to achieve a coherent position on issues like personal rights is beyond me. Screw right-wingers who want to tell me that I can’t marry, and screw left-wingers who want to tell me what I can and cannot own. And no, I’m not a “libertarian”. I’m an old-fashioned American liberal, the kind who believes that government should protect my rights, not decide which rights it’s going to allow me to exercise.

Dudes, not even 284k people answered? That’s not a fair sample. That’s a population roughly the size of Pittsburgh. Also, who conducted this survey? Different audiences would yield different results. If this was done by, say, Fox News, it would be completely different than if it were run by The Daily Show, or even E! News. This is dumb.

So…….Which ones are the crazy ones?

I’ve never been prouder of Texas! I would have expected Texas would be the reddest of the reds.

Not fair to go by state, most states are quite diverse.

Yay for Florida!

So shouldn’t yellow be the correct answer?
Why would you want to give up either?
I don’t understand how you could be cheering either a dark red or bright green response, as both seem un-American. It really all depends on how the question was asked.

If someone would be trying to take away my right to vote, I’d certainly appreciate the right to bear arms.

Well ain’t y’all jist a pack of geniuses. You cain’t shoot no varmints with no dadgum vote. Who’s the professor now!

As a Tennessean, I have the sads. :(

Looks like somebody forgot to invite Alaska and Hawaii.

Once you lose the right to vote, you need a gun. Once your society allows anyone to arm themselves, you also need to be able to vote. *served*

well if this situation came around we would need guns to get the right to vote back

The places with less people have more guns.
I’d like to see this correlated with a chart on population.

If the respondents were given two choices, how would a state end up in the middle (yellow) or toward the “crazy” side (i.e. orange)? Only Idaho seems red, so maybe the orange states gave a more reasonable response than Idaho.