Posted on 06/24/2015 7:53:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As last week's tragic shooting showed, guns remain an entrenched — and accessible — part of American life.
According to the Center for Disease Control, 33,636 people died due to gun-related causes in 2013, the year with the most recent data.
The national average is 10.6 gun deaths per 100,000 residents.
But that number varies widely from state to state.
The Kaiser Family Foundation assembled a table of statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on 2013 mortality rates from firearms in each state. Kaiser combined together various firearm-related causes of death, including assault by firearm, police shootings, suicide by firearm, and accidental discharges.
Some highlights:
• States with the highest rate include Alaska (19.8) and Lousiana (19.3). Alaska doesn't require residents to have a permit for carrying concealed weapons, while Louisiana does (but has fairly permissive gun laws otherwise).
• States with the lowest rate include Massachusetts (3.1) and Hawaii (2.6). Both states have some of the strictest gun control laws in the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
EGGS ACKLEY!.......................
It should be in every HS math course!....................It is written in a comic style and would make a good read even for elementary students...................
They need to conflate homicides with suicides to make that graphic happen. (Statistically, police shootings and accidental discharges are not very common.)
In New York City, for example, suicides using a firearm are rare, because firearms are rare. Conversely, the rates of suicides and possible suicides via drug overdoses, jumping from bridges and high buildings, and jumping in front of subway trains are high.
I'm much more concerned if someone who doesn't want to die is murdered than I am if someone who wants to die, does die. I don't see how it matters at all if someone chooses to commit suicide using a firearm instead of jumping in front of a subway train. The New York state homicide rate is more than twice the Montana and Wyoming homicide rates. I'd choose to live in Montana or Wyoming over New York in a heartbeat.
Liars figure and figures lie (especially these figures)
My uncle died at age 93. He had been a tobacco chewer since his 20’s. New York State listed “tobacco use” as a contributing cause of death on his death certificate.
I would not trust statistics from New York State any further than I could throw the Statue of Liberty.
Exactly! Take it down to zip codes and a very clear pattern emerges.
Here in north Georgia for instance, where we now live, the homicide by firearm rate is one 500th what it is in certain metro Atlanta zip clusters.
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out why.
Imagine if they did an analysis of “legal gun owners “ ...
I recall a study in Texas that showed CCW people had a lower OVERALL crime rate than law enforcement officers.
Including Police action. Home self defense, and all other justified shootings.
What percentage were Blacks while committing a crime, I wonder.
Not granular enough. Try running a map of population centers like cities compared to rural areas. I bet Colorado goes from 11.5 average to 11.49 in the cities and 0.01 in the rural areas.
I read that in ‘65 and it was a lesson that stuck with me. Great book.
Nice!
There has been a big anti-tobacco push by out of state groups here in Louisiana the last decade or so. In one of their flyers they included some questionable statistics, particuarly by age (they had listed some deaths in the 0-6 age range). I did some digging and found they included deaths from house fires where the suspected cause was a lit cigarette as a, “tobacco related death.”
Those Alaskans seem to be a trigger-happy bunch.
The Map showing the number of criminals that decide NOT to commit a crime because of an armed populace is where?
Anytime I hear a talking head, or a liberal in person, start their spiel with, “Statistics show......” I immediately tune them off or out....................
It’s all Sarah Palin’s fault.....................
NAWLINS!.......................
That statistic must include suicides, because the murder rate is about half that.
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