Figure 4 is where the article got the "correlation of death to economic status". Figure 4 is a scatter plot, showing each STATE's poverty vs death rate. Yes,

Figure 4 is where the article got the "correlation of death to economic status". Figure 4 is a scatter plot, showing each STATE's poverty vs death rate. Yes, you could argue that there is a correlation. However, you can also argue because you are not going into the actual specifics of each murder/suicide -- there is a significant potential for error. i.e., does a state's poverty rate and death rate representative of the deceased's demographics? What caught my attention is that Louisiana had almost double the death rate of South Carolina. Something is awfully wrong in Louisiana. Below are the quotes that I pay attention to. Older adolescents aged 15 to 19 years accounted for 82.6% of firearm deaths in 2021 Males accounted for 84.8% of all pediatric firearm mortalities in 2021 With respect to firearm homicides, in 2021, the death rate was 11 times higher for Black children compared with white children For firearm suicides, white children accounted for 78.4% of all firearm suicide deaths in 2021 Louisiana had the highest death rate per 100 000 persons (17.0), followed by Mississippi (14.8), Alabama (11.4), Montana (11.1), and South Carolina (10.2)