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Why are you asking this as a poll, as if it's a matter of opinion? Whatever answer exists would be a statistical fact. Are you one of those Republicans who pretends facts don't exist?
MA has some of the toughest laws and the lowest murder rate. Period. So liberal policies and careful gun checks obviously work. Some other states are 300% higher.
I really wonder why people keep asking question with such obvious answers.
"Firearm deaths are significantly lower in states with stricter gun control legislation. Though the sample sizes are small, we find substantial negative correlations between firearm deaths and states that ban assault weapons, require trigger locks, and mandate safe storage requirements for guns."
it seems to me that the key question should focus on state total homicide rates, or perhaps (for reasons I describe below) total intentional homicide plus accidental gun death rates. And it turns out that there is essentially zero correlation between these numbers and state gun laws.
MA has some of the toughest laws and the lowest murder rate. Period. So liberal policies and careful gun checks obviously work. Some other states are 300% higher.
I really wonder why people keep asking question with such obvious answers.
I'm sure you do, you've made up your mind and refuse to see anything that doesn't support your bias. New Hampshire has very loose gun laws and the lowest murder rate in the country. So clearly conservative gun policies obviously work. I wonder why people keep asking questions with such obvious answers.
MA has some of the toughest laws and the lowest murder rate. Period. So liberal policies and careful gun checks obviously work. Some other states are 300% higher.
I really wonder why people keep asking question with such obvious answers.
Actually your opening sentence is provably false. By murder rate New Hampshire, Hawaii, Maine and Utah have lower murder rates.
New Hampshire, Maine and Utah would be considered more gun friendly states, Hawai'i more restrictive.
Maybe you don't mean murder, but your claim is untrue. Indeed by homicide rates alone you could not separate states that are more or less restrictive by gun control laws.
New Hampshire has the lowest homicide rate in the USA, lower rate per capita than Canada
Why focus on "gun related death" rates? Seems like OP has an ax to grind
Maine, Vermont & New Hampshire have among the lowest overall violence and violent crime rate in North America, but firearms suicides put them high in the ranking of "gun related death" rates. That doesn't change the fact that homicides are vanishingly low in these states; To come up with a homicide count in my town not measured in fractions, you'd have to go to homicides per decade just to get the value up to '1'.
Choose your criteria carefully and you can get whatever preordained results your funding source wants to see published.
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New Hampshire has the lowest homicide rate in the USA, lower rate per capita than Canada
