That chart wasn't accurate in 2013 either. I live in New England, and New Hampshire has always had a high gun ownership rate, and you aren't going to find any stats to corroborate the figure in that chart. I'm not faulting you, but the dude who tweeted it.
Technically, that chart doesn't really debunk that theory. More than 50% of gun deaths are suicides, and no one thinks reducing suicides makes communities safer. So "Gun Deaths" is just a janky metric to use to promote gun control. "Gun-Related Violent Crimes" is a much more focused metric that directly relates to events like the Texas Mall shooting. It also includes other crimes like armed home invasion, robbery, and assault, that all brings together all the negative aspects of widespread gun ownership.
I mean man all the information is out there. I really don't understand why people push back on the narrative that more guns equals more gun deaths. It's true, there's no number out there to push back on it at all.
States that have recently weakened their gun laws are seeing increases in violent crime.
www.americanprogress.org
Homicide rates are higher in states with weaker gun laws
- States that received an “F” grade based on the strength of their gun laws—according to the latest scorecard from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence—saw the highest homicide rates:1
- States with “F” grades saw 25 percent higher homicide rates than states with “C” or “D” grades.2
- States with “F” grades saw 61 percent higher homicide rates than states with “A” or “B” grades—states with the strongest gun laws.3
- The states with the highest firearm mortality rates are Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Wyoming.4 These states all received an “F” grade for their weak gun laws.5
- Children and teenagers are most vulnerable in states with weaker gun laws: In 2020, the 10 states with the highest rates of gun deaths among children and teenagers ages 1–19 were Louisiana, Alaska, Mississippi, South Carolina, Arkansas, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Alabama.6 All of these states received an “F” grade for their weak gun laws.
- Reports also suggest that rates of nonfatal gunshot injuries sustained during assaults are higher in states with weaker gun laws: In 2017, the most recent year with available data across all states, states that received an “F” grade had a rate of nonfatal gunshot injuries that was 22 percent higher than states with “C” or “D” grades and 59 percent higher than states with “A” or “B” grades.7
One of the most fundamental facts is this: where there are more guns, there are more gun deaths.
But it is not just about access to firearms in the home. Research shows that greater availability of guns throughout local neighborhoods in cities like Detroit
[6] and Newark
[7] corresponds to higher rates of firearm deaths, especially in communities suffering from concentrated economic disadvantage. And across cities, legal access to guns via federally licensed dealers
[8] and the availability of stolen guns
[9] result in higher firearm homicide rates. At the county level, more access to guns within and in surrounding counties equates to more gun deaths.
[10]
Across states, researchers found that more guns equal more gun deaths looking at all 50 states in the country from 1981 to 2010.
[11] This finding has been replicated in numerous other studies.
[12] [13] Importantly, states with both lax gun laws
and greater access to guns have higher rates of mass shootings.
[14]
It may be no surprise that this all holds true not just from state to state, but from country to country: where guns are more available, there are more homicides.
[15] Compared to other high-income countries, the firearm homicide rate in the US is 25 times higher and the firearm suicide rate is eight times higher than any other country. For 15-24 year-olds, the gun homicide rate in the US is almost 50 times higher than other peer countries.
[16] The US also has the highest firearm suicide rate of any country in the world while its rate of firearm murders rank roughly 30th in the world, exceeded
almost exclusively by countries in South America ravaged by relentless drug wars.
Gun control is a polarizing topic in the United States. Some Americans argue that owning firearms is a right protected by the Second Amendment of the Constitution and should not be restricted.
www.criminalattorneycincinnati.com
More Americans died of gun-related injuries in 2021 than in any other year on record, according to the latest available statistics from the CDC.
www.pewresearch.org
Which states have the highest and lowest gun death rates in the U.S.?
The rate of gun fatalities varies widely from state to state. In 2021, the states with the highest total rates of gun-related deaths – counting murders, suicides and all other categories tracked by the CDC – included Mississippi (33.9 per 100,000 people), Louisiana (29.1), New Mexico (27.8), Alabama (26.4) and Wyoming (26.1). The states with the lowest total rates included Massachusetts (3.4), Hawaii (4.8), New Jersey (5.2), New York (5.4) and Rhode Island (5.6).
The results are somewhat different when looking at gun murder and gun suicide rates separately. The places with the highest gun murder rates in 2021 included the District of Columbia (22.3 per 100,000 people), Mississippi (21.2), Louisiana (18.4), Alabama (13.9) and New Mexico (11.7). Those with the lowest gun murder rates included Massachusetts (1.5), Idaho (1.5), Hawaii (1.6), Utah (2.1) and Iowa (2.2). Rate estimates are not available for Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont or Wyoming.
The states with the highest gun suicide rates in 2021 included Wyoming (22.8 per 100,000 people), Montana (21.1), Alaska (19.9), New Mexico (13.9) and Oklahoma (13.7). The states with the lowest gun suicide rates were Massachusetts (1.7), New Jersey (1.9), New York (2.0), Hawaii (2.8) and Connecticut (2.9). Rate estimates are not available for the District of Columbia.
All the data is readily available, the only way to solve this gun problem is with federal regulation applied to all state in the country.
them Uvalde fakkits
