It is unfortunate that the WSJ would stoop to creating and publishing this article. It reports with insufficient critical examination a “study” that avoids basic factors any truly scientific study would consider. Specifically, there are no demographic data used in the analyses. I have no doubt the organization that is promoting this propaganda is using data to give a pseudo-legitimacy to their agenda. It is not research by any stretch of the imagination—it is propaganda masquerading as research. If you control for demographic composition of the populations in each state, what happens to the results—can you guess? And, consider the concentration of homicides in each state—could urban areas play a role-—can you guess?
Of course these are the States with the highest percentages of Blacks.
What about North Dakota and South Dakota? They have laissez faire gun laws. Why didn't they get on the list?
I don’t think 24/7 Wall Street is the WSJ.
The “statistics” here are brought to us by the Center for American Progress. Commie propaganda.