Posted on 01/30/2015 12:18:06 PM PST by BBell
Washington, DC — Newly available data for 2013 reveals that states with weak gun violence prevention laws and higher rates of gun ownership have the highest overall gun death rates in the nation, according to a Violence Policy Center (VPC) analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
Meanwhile, states with the lowest overall gun death rates have lower rates of gun ownership and some of the strongest gun violence prevention laws in the nation. However, even in these states the human toll of gun violence is far above the gun death rate in other industrialized nations.
The VPC analysis refers to overall gun death rates in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available. A table of the states with the five highest gun death rates and the five lowest gun death rates is below. For a list of gun death rates in all 50 states, see http://www.vpc.org/fadeathchart15.htm.
The five states with the highest per capita gun death rates in 2013 were Alaska, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Wyoming. Each of these states has extremely lax gun violence prevention laws as well as a higher rate of gun ownership. The state with the lowest gun death rate in the nation was Hawaii, followed by Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Each of these states has strong gun violence prevention laws and a lower rate of gun ownership.
“Reducing exposure to firearms and having stronger gun laws saves lives,” says VPC Legislative Director Kristen Rand. “Each year, the data consistently show that states with strong gun violence prevention laws and low rates of gun ownership have the lowest gun death rates in the nation. The highest gun death rates are in states with weak gun violence prevention laws and
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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.
True. If you took out New Orleans and Baton Rouge Louisiana would have a low rate of violent crime and firearms deaths.
The stats don’t discuss whether the people killed were robbers, were killed by police, were suicides, etc.
Looks like they lump everything together, police shootings, justified homicides, suicides, etc.
Wonder what it looks like with those pulled out?
Like, Chicago.
Now let’s do the same thing with MURDER rates.
...and accidents.
Their data includes suicides, criminals shot by cops, accidental deaths, and any death where a firearm was merely “present”.
It’s BS.
The statistical lie they are using here is by focusing on “gun deaths.”
The reason they focus on “gun deaths” is because more guns result in a lower overall murder rate, and they don’t want to admit that.
More guns, less murder.
Bill Whittle’s video “Number One With a Bullet” video illustrates this very succinctly.
Here is a link to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pELwCqz2JfE
Here are links to the three data sources that he references.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#By_country
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
Fact is, states with strong gun laws and low gun ownership rates lead the nation in per capita murder rate.
Don’t let them hide behind the “gun deaths” fig leaf.
Notice it’s a “rate”, which means that any “gun death” will rank much higher in lower population areas.
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.
I’m willing to bet some of those Alaska deaths are people who died by animals/misadventure during hunts. Get ‘et by a grizzly? VPC included you in a gun death stat...
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”?
What a pantload. Is that gun deaths per 100,000, if it is that means VT had about 60 p/yr, about 1 month for Chicago. Lying liars lie. There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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