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.
It was meant to be. That's what liberals in media do for a living: Mislead............
How can you draw conclusions as to gun control laws from this chart? Texas has fewer deaths per 100,000 people than the Rust Belt states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. It also has fewer deaths than any of the border states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, or the states bordering the border states. Texas gun laws are probably less restrictive or on a par with all these states.