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 ...
Yes.
Hmmmm. Now what on God’s Green Earth could be the common denominator here, I wonder...?
Instead of violent death, which a firearm death probably is, by definition, you meant “murder” or other non-justified homicide.
The map is inaccurate because the data excludes counting people who are killed by gunfire from the police.
“Exactly! Take it down to zip codes and a very clear pattern emerges.”
I’ve posted this a couple of times, but it clearly makes your point:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/pELwCqz2JfE?rel=0&autoplay=true
Black RAT-run cities are driving up our national stats on murder.
BTW you will note that our national murder rate (from all methods) is half the number quoted in the posted article. So much for the truth.
It does, even accidents. They included everything. I guess they even included getting pistol-whipped top death..............
...and suicides.
I’d guess that’s why Alaska stands out.
Now that’s a good map showing homocides.
That’s a lot more accurate and informative than the state by state comparison.
Now, let’s show a demographically correlative map, and I’m sure we’ll soon arrive at the root of the problem.
People NEED sunlight!
A quick check of murder stats from the FBI and population figures from the Census and it seems the Kaiser map is inflated.
Murder rate by state https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-4
Population by state http://www.census.gov/popest/data/maps/2011/MAP-EST2011-01.xls
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The map is misleading.
First, the map shows firearms deaths per 100,000 people. Deaths can be murders or suicides or accidents. Other deaths are a justifiable exercise of self-defense. All categories are lumped together.
Second, states such as New York with the exception of New York City and a few other large cities is highly rural. We do not know if the firearms deaths are lower in rural New York than in New York City. A much better way to do this map would be on a House district basis since most districts contain about the same population. I think you will see that the most likely place for a person to be murdered is in a city like Chicago.
They conveniently look at this from the state level and not the individual cities. Take Louisiana for example. If they strip out the New Orleans data, where does the state rank? My guess is that it would fall much lower down the list.
It was meant to be. That's what liberals in media do for a living: Mislead............
close to 60% of these are suicides.
Meaningless data if you don’t take out suicides...
Suicides are the number one cause of gun death...
Map is build to buttress a agenda...
“Here’s a table that breaks things down by metro area. It does show what we would expect... some of the highest rates per 100K residents are Baltimore, Philadelphia, etc.”
Great stats. Also note that Memphis takes first place at just under 1,000!
And what do these places have in common? Lots of “Holder’s People,”and “Holder’s People Leadership.”
It would be an “illuminating statistic,” to remove all black crime from the numbers! 13% of the population, probably 75% of the crime!
>>>This is ALL death by firearm.
It would be interesting to see violent death only.<<<
The figure for Alaska, where I live, is misleading because they count all deaths by firearms.
About half the deaths from firearms here are from suicides, which is sadly common, especially among the Native community and in the villages. I would imagine that there are a fairly large number of accidents involving firearms up here as well, since just about everyone outside the larger communities hunts or takes along a firearm when going into the wilderness.
I’d also like to see firearms used in crime only - and aggregate the data by community or county, not state. I was looking at Illinois and thought, “Man, if that’s the statewide rate with all the murders in Chicago, the death rate for firearms in Cook County must be astonishing.”
I’d also imagine that the high death rate in the American South is focused in some counties, too.
My other guess is that the goal here is not to illuminate but to press the narrative that guns are bad.
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