05-24-2018, 12:15 PM
Gun violence is higher in red states.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/surprise-s...red-states
I already posted the relationship between murder rates and gun laws. I got the murder stats from http://deathpenaltyinfo.org and the gun law rates from the Brady scorecard.
11 red states, 4 purple states and 2 blue states had the highest murder rates, with an average rank of 9 among the 17 states. In the laxity of their gun laws, these states ranked 19.5
7 red, 6 purple and 4 blue states had an average murder rate rank of 26. Their average Brady scorecard rank was 25.3
5 red, 2 purple and 9 blue states had an average murder rate rank of 42.5. The average lax gun law rank on the Brady scorecard was 32.1
It is quite a notable fact that blue states have the toughest gun laws, with only Maine and Vermont different from the trend.
The notable fact about rural white red states that ranked in the middle section like Wyoming, Montana and Arizona, was that they were near or at the top in gun law laxity. Clearly, it is their lax gun laws alone that make their murder rates comparable to states like CA and NY, WI and PA. Alaska of course is the most glaring example; a rural white state whose murder rate ranks 11 and its lax gun law rate ranks #2.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/surprise-s...red-states
I already posted the relationship between murder rates and gun laws. I got the murder stats from http://deathpenaltyinfo.org and the gun law rates from the Brady scorecard.
11 red states, 4 purple states and 2 blue states had the highest murder rates, with an average rank of 9 among the 17 states. In the laxity of their gun laws, these states ranked 19.5
7 red, 6 purple and 4 blue states had an average murder rate rank of 26. Their average Brady scorecard rank was 25.3
5 red, 2 purple and 9 blue states had an average murder rate rank of 42.5. The average lax gun law rank on the Brady scorecard was 32.1
It is quite a notable fact that blue states have the toughest gun laws, with only Maine and Vermont different from the trend.
The notable fact about rural white red states that ranked in the middle section like Wyoming, Montana and Arizona, was that they were near or at the top in gun law laxity. Clearly, it is their lax gun laws alone that make their murder rates comparable to states like CA and NY, WI and PA. Alaska of course is the most glaring example; a rural white state whose murder rate ranks 11 and its lax gun law rate ranks #2.