RTFA "Some other experts have speculated that differences in shooting death rates could be tied to differences in emergency medical care: Gunshot victims are m

RTFA "Some other experts have speculated that differences in shooting death rates could be tied to differences in emergency medical care: Gunshot victims are more likely to survive if they arrive quickly to a high-quality trauma center. By that logic, however, Baltimore should be one of the least lethal cities in the country. Dr. Sahael Stapleton, a surgeon who previously conducted research at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, points out that Baltimore gun violence takes place in relatively concentrated areas near the city’s state-of-the-art trauma center." The general takeaway is that data collection is too incomplete and too inconsistent across jurisdictions to test lots of hypotheses well.