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Compared to the firearm murder rate in Canada which is around 0.5 homicides per 100,000 population, there are only a handful of states that come close to that rate.
When is someone going to put up a map on terrosit acts to say it proves anything really .Hmocide and murder can be very different things also.Just as crime stats are only what is reported in different areas of the country.Just as if you ask most local in a city or town can tell you where the danger zones are.
That map is bull. California and Texas have the most murders. So u mean to tell me Michigan has more overall murders even tho there is Detroit. Impossible that map is falsehood
I'm giving you scientific facts. I'm only the messenger. Racial groups have different IQ levels, IQ levels have a high degree of correlation with poverty rates, and crime levels. Sorry if you can't handle the truth. I'm a liberal, I believe in having strong social programs, but I'm not going to sugar coat scientific facts, just because mean natured racists are going to twist this reality around for their purposes.
Not necessarily. North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Utah, and Montana are red states and they aren't particularly violent states.
All of these states have a lot of wide open spaces and probably don't have a community numbering more than 100,000 (With the exception of the Salt Lake City-Provo Metro area) so there is less chance of human to human interactions with strangers. Comapre than to the the downstate New York-Northern New Jersey area which has more people (anout 25 million) than all of these states combined all packed in an area of about 10,000 sq miles.There is a classic psych experiment that studied what happens when you put many rats in a cage, pack'em in like sardines. They become psychotic and start tearing each other apart. Guns may be a social benefit in the rural and widely spaced small towns of the West but in a jam-packed neurotic madhouse of urban America I think it is obvious they are not. I agree that guns don't kill people but in the hands of a stressed out, psychologically impaired denizen of urban America they are possitively lethal. Guns make it so easy to kill.
It also depends what form of firearm violence you are analyzing.
The U.S. average for aggravated assault with a firearm is 43.77 per 100,000 population.
The three highest states (2011):
Arkansas 100.56 firearm assaults per 100,000 population
Tennessee 137.58
South Carolina 127.88
Illinois has a low aggravated assault rate of 5.26 and an overall firearm homicide rate only slightly higher than the national average (although Chicago is a clear outlier.)
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