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
Notice that they are reporting “gun death rate” and not the homicide rate.
Since Illinois started granting concealed carry permits this year, the number of robberies that have led to arrests in Chicago has declined 20 percent from last year, according to police department statistics. Reports of burglary and motor vehicle theft are down 20 percent and 26 percent, respectively. In the first quarter, the city’s homicide rate was at a 56-year low.
“It isn’t any coincidence crime rates started to go down when concealed carry was permitted. Just the idea that the criminals don’t know who’s armed and who isn’t has a deterrence effect,” said Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association. “The police department hasn’t changed a single tactic — they haven’t announced a shift in policy or of course — and yet you have these incredible numbers.”
Translation: more serious bad guys are getting shot by their intended victims. It is called SERIOUS crime control by making sure the thugs assume room temperature so they will never be a threat again.
Maybe it’s the right people being shot
Any correlation to the percentage of Amish to gun deaths?
Also...cause and effect. Perhaps states with looser gun laws have them due to millions of Amish going around raping and killing whites?
Well yeah. What did they think guns were for?
Because street gangs steal them?