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And some of the lowest Per Capita gun deaths. Stop using anecdotes as data.

• dariusj18 5y ago
  But is so with gun murders? According to this chart (2015 data) is it not one of the lowest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta... however it did seemingly fall in rank if not numbers from 2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_United_States_by_state#Murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_Uni...
• laverya 5y ago
  2/3rds of gun deaths are suicides, and so any differential in the firearm suicide rate will tend to swamp differences in the firearm homicide rate. [1] puts CA as 3.4 gun homicides per 100,000 people per year, and TX at 3.2. Top of the list is DC at 16.5 (and then LA at 7.7), bottom of the list is VT at 0.3. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_United_States_by_state#Murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_Uni...