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2 posted on 06/24/2015 7:55:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

This is ALL death by firearm.

It would be interesting to see violent death only.


6 posted on 06/24/2015 7:58:49 AM PDT by rey
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To: Red Badger

Does that include suicides?


7 posted on 06/24/2015 7:59:03 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Red Badger

Terribly misleading graph, applying data at state level only. Show that information by county or precinct, or better yet vs population density. Even better: show deaths vs firearm ownership rates - NY is 4.2? might be surprised that “upstate NY” has a very high firearm ownership rate, and those deaths are concentrated in NYC where [legal] ownership is staggeringly rare. GA is 12.6? might find most of those deaths are in Atlanta, not the rest of the otherwise heavily-armed state.


19 posted on 06/24/2015 8:08:37 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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To: Red Badger

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.


30 posted on 06/24/2015 8:26:03 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Red Badger

Those Alaskans seem to be a trigger-happy bunch.


35 posted on 06/24/2015 8:35:16 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Red Badger

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


52 posted on 06/24/2015 9:01:59 AM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: Red Badger

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.


54 posted on 06/24/2015 9:09:08 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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