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Originally Posted by driveway
Statistics prove you wrong:
New York actually has the 5th LOWEST rate of gun-death per 100,000 people at 5.20 per 100,000.
linkys: http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2008/...5011209186884/
http://www.vpc.org/press/0905gundeath.htm
Also, stats for 2009 gun murders - not just deaths - can be found here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datab...-us-state#data
Where you'll find your home state of Alabama is the 3rd most dangerous state for gun-murders in America with a rate of 8.02 gun homicides per 100,000 people. Top two were DC at a staggering 18.84 gun homicides per 100,000 and Louisiana with 10.46.
The national average was 2.98/100,000 and those three particular states you mention, Iowa, Montana and Minnesota had rates of 0.40, 4.94 and 5.64 respectively.
All studies that I can find show a direct correlation between higher rates of gun ownership and both gun-deaths and gun-murders.
Also, if you consider that in America the gun-murder rate is 2.98/100,000 and the gun-death rate is 10.32/100,000 that means the rate of self-inflicted or accidental gun-death is 7.34/100,000.
More guns means more people get killed by guns, period. |
Just wondering if you happened to see the documentary
Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore. He had a piece in the documentary that had his crew go into a supposed Canadian gun shop and buy whatever they wanted that day. His point was that there were just as many guns which were just as easy to get in Canada than there are (per capita) in the US, and that the phenomenon of 'shooting people' was just a US problem (because Canadians have just as many guns but they don't shoot one another). I think Moore is full of it, but your comments reminded me of that part of the documentary.