This is ALL death by firearm.
It would be interesting to see violent death only.
Instead of violent death, which a firearm death probably is, by definition, you meant “murder” or other non-justified homicide.
>>>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.