House passes bill to expand background checks for gun sales

[Eric the Green]

Some gun and crime rate stats:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-...e-by-state

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20...n-the-u-s/

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosma...irearm.htm

Gun death Data Table
Datatable showing data for the United States Map, see link.
state, death rate per 100,000 in 2020, total deaths
In order by lowest death rate (I will add blue for Democratic and red for Republican voting states recently):

Hawaii blue
3.4
50
Massachusetts blue
3.7
268
New Jersey blue
5
443
Rhode Island blue
5.1
54
New York blue
5.3
1,052
Connecticut blue
6
219
California blue
8.5
3,449
Minnesota blue
8.9
513
New Hampshire purple trending blue
8.9
128
Nebraska red
10.1
197
Maine blue
10.4
153
Washington blue
10.9
864
Iowa purple trending red
11.2
351
Vermont blue
11.6
76
Wisconsin purple trending blue
12.2
717
Oregon blue
13
592
Virginia blue
13.4
1,174
Maryland blue
13.5
803
Pennsylvania purple trending blue
13.6
1,752
South Dakota red
13.6
120
Utah red
13.6
429
Florida purple trending red
13.7
3,041
North Dakota red
13.8
100
Illinois blue
14.1
1,745
Texas red
14.2
4,164
Delaware blue
14.4
135
Michigan purple trending blue
14.6
1,454
Ohio purple trending red
15.2
1,764
Colorado blue
15.4
922
North Carolina purple trending red
16
1,699
Arizona purple trending blue
16.7
1,265
Kansas red
16.9
494
Nevada purple trending blue
17
547
Indiana red
17.3
1,159
Idaho red
17.6
321
Georgia purple
17.7
1,897
West Virginia red
18.1
325
Kentucky red
20.1
902
Oklahoma red
20.7
826
Montana red
20.9
238
Tennessee red
21.3
1,473
South Carolina red
22
1,131
Arkansas red
22.6
673
New Mexico blue
22.7
479
Alaska red
23.5
175
Wyoming, Lousiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Missouri, all red, are not listed on this chart, but mostly have even higher rates.