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Alaska is #1 and very easy to get guns there. If just outright gun related deaths including suicides, it tends to be the less restricted states.
Top 20 are Utah, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, West Virginia, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Montana, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alaska. None of those are really restrictive states.
This does not address the specific question of the OP (no breakdown by states), but I just found this interesting interactive on 538 website about firearm deaths. They explain their method of collecting DATA on the main page.
What is most interesting is the fact that almost two-thirds of gun deaths are suicides. This is the kind of information congress ordered the CDC to stop researching, at the prodding of the NRA. They still get copies of death certificates.
Again, I thought it worthwhile to make available here.
Yeah, men over 45 in economically disadvantaged states taking themselves out seems to be the biggest area of concern. Employment can be rough at that age if you don't keep skills up to date with market demands. Many facing major demotions from a peak in their career.
"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."
What's your definition of "gun related deaths?" It makes a big difference. If a 45 year old commits suicide at 9:30 pm in the faculty parking lot of a school, is it a school shooting?
Alaska is #1 and very easy to get guns there. If just outright gun related deaths including suicides, it tends to be the less restricted states.
Need to put this into better perspective.
Alaska is #1 per-capita with a TOTAL of 177 deaths (2016)
Massachusetts is #50 with a total of 242 deaths (2016)
Funny how the state with the lowest "ranking" has more deaths. Oddly, California is second only to Texas in total number of deaths (TX-3353, CA-3184) ~ which should indicate that left or tight, it doesn't matter. Strict laws or less strict laws, it doesn't matter. Works on the bottom end of the scale too, Rhode Island is the least with 49 total and not too much further up the lists is Wyoming with 101, again on opposite ends of the spectrum but being cozy with each other.
While I'm a firm believe in the saying that there are 3 kinds a lies (lies, dam lie and statistics), I do wish we could get a better picture of self-inflicted vs accidental vs intentional (towards others).
For instance, Wyoming (have to use 2014, sorry) only had 93 firearm deaths and 24 that were homicide:
So the state that ranks at the bottom has more violent crime than one that's several steps above it.
Pull Alaska in, which is #1, and they had a whopping 62 homicides. California? Nearly 2000. Texas, 1500. Illinois, 900
Me, I'm not concerned with the tool used for suicide. They will find a way regardless (different topic, but I hate that they aren't offered a legal option... 6 months of counseling and then a prescription if they still want to go ahead). I *am* concerned with violence towards others.... I want to be in one of those states at the top of this list (nearest to zero, the opposite end from California):
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on an average day, 96 Americans are killed with guns
