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  • States with tough gun laws have fewer shooting deaths: study

    09/01/2015 4:48:28 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 42 replies
    nydailynews.com ^ | august 31, 2015 | GLENN BLAIN , CELESTE KATZ   
    The harder states make it to get guns — like New York — the fewer people die because of them, a new analysis of firearm restrictions shows. New York State, with its relatively strict laws — restrictions that are even tougher in the five boroughs — had 4.2 gun deaths per capita in 2013, the third-fewest number of gun-related deaths nationwide, according to the National Journal’s study released Monday. It examined gun-related deaths of all types — from murders to suicides and accidental shootings — in the year 2013 and found “while it’s certainly true that a number of factors contribute to...