Rank State Rate
1 Alaska 19.59
2 Louisiana 19.15
3 Alabama 17.79
4 Mississippi 17.55
5 Wyoming 17.51
6 Montana 16.94
7 Arkansas 16.93
8 Oklahoma 16.41
9 Tennessee 15.86
10 New Mexico 15.63
11 South Carolina 15.60
12 West Virginia 15.10
13 Missouri 14.56
14 Arizona 14.20
15 Nevada 14.16
16 Kentucky 14.15
17 Idaho 14.08
18 Indiana 13.04
19 Georgia 12.63
20 Florida 12.49
21 North Carolina 12.42
22 Michigan 12.03
23 (tie) Maine 11.89
23 (tie) North Dakota 11.89
25 Oregon 11.76
26 Colorado 11.75
27 Utah 11.69
28 Kansas 11.44
29 Pennsylvania 11.36
30 Ohio 11.14
31 Delaware 10.80
32 Texas 10.50
33 Virginia 10.46
34 Vermont 10.37
35 Wisconsin 9.93
36 Maryland 9.75
37 South Dakota 9.47
38 Washington 9.07
39 Nebraska 8.99
40 Illinois 8.67
41 Iowa 8.19
42 California 7.89
43 Minnesota 7.88
44 New Hampshire 7.03
45 New Jersey 5.69
46 Rhode Island 5.33
47 Connecticut 4.48
48 New York 4.39
49 Massachusetts 3.18
50 Hawaii 2.71
. National Firearm Death Rate 10.64
Make Democrat-controlled cities stand on their own and the list will look far different.
Violence Policy Center is code for “this study is crap”.
Well, THERE ya have it.
Looks like they lump everything together, police shootings, justified homicides, suicides, etc.
Wonder what it looks like with those pulled out?
Now let’s do the same thing with MURDER rates.
Their data includes suicides, criminals shot by cops, accidental deaths, and any death where a firearm was merely “present”.
It’s BS.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the “rate” value used fudged numbers as well. No way Illinois’ rate is so low, ditto Michigan and Indiana (Gary). Also, Wyoming, AK, and many of the other “red” states at the top of that list have low populations, so even vanishingly-small numbers of deaths related to firearms skew the numbers. Further, I’d put a fair amount of money on a big chunk of the AK deaths being suicides.
They don’t differentiate legally possessing a firearm from illegal possession. I would bet a stolen firearm in the hands of a lawless gangster is far more likely to be used to in a violent crime than those firearms in my safe.
Yeah, riiiiiight. Because we all know they would never lie to us for the cause of taking our gun rights away.
Doesn’t this directly contradict the Lott study from “More Guns, Less Crime”?
And we should believe ANYTHING that the Fabricated One’s admin publishes Because?
Probably from all the worthless thugs getting shot trying to rob the home of a gun owner!
Total BS study pushing a liberal agenda...again.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
These weasels are known to outright lie about the numbers they present.
I know for a fact, from years of looking at crime stats, that the murder rates are lowest in States that allow firearms with the least amount of red tape.
States and cities with the strictest gun control laws are the ones that have the highest murder and crime rates.
What these liberals want everyone to believe is that using a gun to defend yourself constitutes violent crime. If a cop shoots a bad guy, that is considered violent crime. If you use a firearm o defend yourself late at night in your home, that is violent crime.
What liberals want is like England what has: If you harm a criminal, like a liberals are, you should go to jail.
The vast majority of criminals are liberals, and liberals hate it when we shoot them.
The “VPC” is so blatantly deceptive besides trying to put anything on the internet so gun control crazies will have something,...anything,...they can try and use to rebuff the Truth. Pathetic how they think they can just put this kind of crap out there and thinking Patriots will not debunk them. This is not 2008 where the silent Majority just sit back. This is 2015 and the resoundingly, outspoken Majority will call them out! Their lies will more likely make them look like fools they are. Here is just a splinter of information.
Anti-Gun Advocates Probably Won’t Like This New CDC Report
“The study showed youth homicide rates fell across the board – in males, females, whites, blacks and Hispanics. However, males and blacks continued to be killed at far higher rates than females or people in other racial and ethnic groups. The 2010 rate for blacks was nearly four times higher than the average for all youths that age.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/12/anti-gun-advocates-probably-wont-like-this-new-cdc-report/
Guns don’t kill people; bullets do!
A regional Bill Of Rights? Screw that. And the hell with registration too. I’ll stand with the Constitution.
My ACME Catalogue Bullshit Detector is going nuts with this article.
