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Thursday, January 29, 2015 19:29

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Frank over at Perfectly Frank put up a post; one we often see from gun control advocates.

I’ve taken his chart – from the VPC and added a column.

Rank	State	Firearm Related Rate	Firearm Ownership
1	Alaska	19.59	57.8
2	Louisiana	19.15	44.1
3	Alabama	17.79	51.7
4	Mississippi	17.55	55.3
5	Wyoming	17.51	59.7
6	Montana	16.94	57.7
7	Arkansas	16.93	55.3
8	Oklahoma	16.41	42.9
9	Tennessee	15.86	43.9
10	New Mexico	15.63	34.8
11	South Carolina	15.6	42.3
12	West Virginia	15.1	55.3
13	Missouri	14.56	41.7
14	Arizona	14.2	31.1
15	Nevada	14.16	33.8
16	Kentucky	14.15	47.7
17	Idaho	14.08	55
18	Indiana	13.04	39.1
19	Georgia	12.63	40.3
20	Florida	12.49	24.5
21	North Carolina	12.42	41.3
22	Michigan	12.03	38.4
23 (tie)	North Dakota	11.89	50.7
23 (tie)	Maine	11.89	40.5
25	Oregon	11.76	39.8
26	Colorado	11.75	34.7
27	Utah	11.69	43.9
28	Kansas	11.44	42.1
29	Pennsylvania	11.36	34.7
30	Ohio	11.14	32.4
31	Delaware	10.8	25.5
32	Texas	10.5	35.9
33	Virginia	10.46	35.1
34	Vermont	10.37	42
35	Wisconsin	9.93	44.4
36	Maryland	9.75	21.3
37	South Dakota	9.47	56.6
38	Washington	9.07	33.1
39	Nebraska	8.99	38.6
40	Illinois	8.67	20.2
41	Iowa	8.19	42.9
42	California	7.89	21.3
43	Minnesota	7.88	41.7
44	New Hampshire	7.03	30
45	New Jersey	5.69	12.6
46	Rhode Island	5.33	12.8
47	Connecticut	4.48	16.7
48	New York	4.39	18
49	Massachusetts	3.18	12.6
50	Hawaii	2.71	6.7

Since Frank is still trying to figure things out; I’m going to keep this real simple. Let’s just look at the top ten states for the two variables; Firearm Related Homicides and Firearm Ownership. One of the most common gun control mantras is “more guns = more death”

Top Ten by Firearm Homicide Rate	Top Ten by Ownership
1. Alaska	5. Wyoming
2. Louisiana	1. Alaska
3. Alabama	6. Montana
4 . Mississippi	37. South Dakota
5. Wyoming	4. Mississippi
6. Montana	7. Arkansas
7. Arkansas	12. West Virginia
8. Oklahoma	17. Idaho
9. Tennessee	3 Alabama
10. New Mexico	23. North Dakota

The Numbers in both columns are the states’ ranking for Firearm related homicide rate. So Frank, if More Guns equals more firearm related deaths; why does Wyoming have a higher percentage of firearms but fewer deaths then Alaska or Louisiana or Alabama or Mississippi?

Why does Mississippi have more firearms then Louisiana but Louisiana have more firearm related homicides?

Source: http://3bxsofbs.infamousanime.net/?p=9014

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