This does not tell the entire story. Broken down by counties and then cities paints a better picture, married with population for those counties/cities.
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.
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