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The states with most liberal gun laws generally have the most guns deaths. Note that the states with worst record are decidedly Red and that Blues states are noticeably much better.
the devil is ALWAYS in the details.
How many of those "deaths' are suicides, etc.?
WITHOUT better explanation of HOW the deaths occurred, your stats are meaningless.
The REAL facts would be much clearer IF we had them by city.
Illinois, (Chicago), (Michigan, (Detroit) and Wash. DC are NOT on your "worst" list, yet THEY have the MOST MURDERS.
44 murders a day in a nation of 310 million people. The average person has little to worry about. I would personally have more to be concerned about. By age, gender and race, I would be far more likely to be a murder victim.
The states with most liberal gun laws generally have the most guns deaths. Note that the states with worst record are decidedly Red and that Blues states are noticeably much better.
LOL what I noted from my perspective is that Texas doesn't show up on either list - not among the "best" and not among the "worst" - and yet so many people think of Texans as gun toting, from the hip shooting, wild wild West types.
Another "gun friendly" state that doesn't show up on the "worst" list is Florida. I just think that's interesting.
Last edited by KathrynAragon; 11-18-2015 at 11:04 AM..
LOL what I noted from my perspective is that Texas doesn't show up on either list - not among the "best" and not among the "worst" - and yet so many people think of Texans as gun toting, from the hip shooting, wild wild West types.
And Texas has seen as massive drop in its murder rate over the last 20 years.
44 murders a day in a nation of 310 million people. The average person has little to worry about. I would personally have more to be concerned about. By age, gender and race, I would be far more likely to be a murder victim.
Murder by race from the CDC 2013 stats.
Total murders in the U.S. by firearms--- 11,208
Total number of White ---- 4,482 this includes both male and female
Total number of Black----- 6,442 includes both male and female
Those shot by police;
Black ----- 147 includes both sexes
White -----352 includes both sexes
And Texas has seen as massive drop in its murder rate over the last 20 years.
The murder rate nation wide has been dropping significantly over the past decades in fact.
After reaching an all time high of 9.8 per 100,000 in 1974, the murder rate in the US has dropped to 4.5 - lower than it was in 1950.
In fact, the following states have a homocide rate lower than the national average (which is already pretty low):
California
Texas
Virginia
Ohio
W VA
New Jersey
Kentucky
Montana
Kansas
New York
North Dakota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Colorado
Wyoming
Washington
Connecticut
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Utah
Idaho
Massachusetts
Oregon
Iowa
Hawaii
Maine
Minnesota
Vermont
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So apparently lots of factors come into play - not just political affiliation.
I was just reading an article about Geraldo Rivera and his daughter being in France during the attack. While this is tragic, I realize that we have a lot of murders in the US that no one is talking about. As it turns out, we have an average of 44 murders per day: How many people are murdered every day in the United States? yet no seems as upset about that or is demanding that something be done, yes, they talk but no real action.
So what is the problem. Is it not "pc" to protect your "own" anymore? We send our soldiers to protect and die for other countries, countries who have their own populations who should be defending themselves or be overtaken since we did that to the American Indians and no one cried "foul", and our own streets aren't even safe and some are extremely dangerous. We tuck away illegals in sanctuary cities and our own POTUS won't allow our laws to be enforced.
This just seems upside down to me. Why don't the lives of our own citizens matter? We have gangs that dominant some areas so why aren't our military forces deployed to those areas? "To protect against all enemies, both foreign and domestic."
I say cars are far more dangerous, BAN CARS!:
"The United States is on track to have its deadliest traffic year since 2007, the National Safety Council says, with nearly 19,000 people killed as a result of motor vehicle accidents between January and June—a 14 percent increase over the same period last year. The number of injuries and the costs associated with traffic accidents also rose significantly, according to estimates from NSC’s" http://www.newsweek.com/us-traffic-d...ts-2015-363602
I say cars are far more dangerous, BAN CARS!:
"The United States is on track to have its deadliest traffic year since 2007, the National Safety Council says, with nearly 19,000 people killed as a result of motor vehicle accidents between January and June—a 14 percent increase over the same period last year. The number of injuries and the costs associated with traffic accidents also rose significantly, according to estimates from NSC’s" http://www.newsweek.com/us-traffic-d...ts-2015-363602
You think cars are dangerous, doctors are multiple times more dangerous than cars and guns.
Even pools kill multiples times more children than guns.
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