http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2015/01/in-todays-edition-of-news-that-should.html
Courtesy of the Violence Policy Center:
Newly available data for 2013 reveals that states with weak gun
violence prevention laws and higher rates of gun ownership have the
highest overall gun death rates in the nation, according to a Violence
Policy Center (VPC) analysis of data from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and
Control.
Meanwhile, states with the lowest overall gun death rates have lower
rates of gun ownership and some of the strongest gun violence prevention
laws in the nation. However, even in these states the human toll of gun
violence is far above the gun death rate in other industrialized
nations.
The five states with the highest per capita gun death rates in 2013
were Alaska, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Wyoming. Each of these
states has extremely lax gun violence prevention laws as well as a
higher rate of gun ownership. The state with the lowest gun death rate
in the nation was Hawaii, followed by Massachusetts, New York,
Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Each of these states has strong gun
violence prevention laws and a lower rate of gun ownership.
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