Cold, Dead Hands
By Kate on July 10, 2016 1:58 AM | 3 Comments
US stats of course, via Wretchard
related:
Violence, Guns, & Puzzlement
I’ve been staring at the chart from here:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state
The original has links to the FBI data and a spreadsheet of this data. Also, in the original, you can click on a column heading to sort the data. So “hit the link” for more.
Mostly I come to the conclusion that gun laws are orthogonal to gun crimes. It looks like rural / farming states have a lower rate of gun violence, generally, despite (or perhaps because of) pervasive gun presence on farms and in farm communities.
There is some evidence for the disaster that is “Black On Black” violence. States with larger urban black populations tend to have high gun violence stats (see D.C., Mississippi and Louisiana compare Virginia, Oklahoma) but there’s a lot of noise in that speculation.
Places like California and Illinois and Washington D.C. have essentially draconian gun laws, yet gun murder rates of 3.2, 2.93, and 12.46, respectively (USA average 2.75 so all “above average” though statistical significance not determined). Then States with very loose gun access and lots of guns like New Hampshire, Vermont, and South Dakota have rates of 0.53, 0.75, and 0.68, respectively.
How “loose” are N.H. gun laws? Rather like when I was a kid in California and we didn’t bother locking the doors to our house and left the keys in the car “in case someone needed to move it”.
mo
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/violence-guns-puzzlement/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state
By Kate on July 10, 2016 1:58 AM | 3 Comments
US stats of course, via Wretchard
related:
Violence, Guns, & Puzzlement
I’ve been staring at the chart from here:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state
The original has links to the FBI data and a spreadsheet of this data. Also, in the original, you can click on a column heading to sort the data. So “hit the link” for more.
Mostly I come to the conclusion that gun laws are orthogonal to gun crimes. It looks like rural / farming states have a lower rate of gun violence, generally, despite (or perhaps because of) pervasive gun presence on farms and in farm communities.
There is some evidence for the disaster that is “Black On Black” violence. States with larger urban black populations tend to have high gun violence stats (see D.C., Mississippi and Louisiana compare Virginia, Oklahoma) but there’s a lot of noise in that speculation.
Places like California and Illinois and Washington D.C. have essentially draconian gun laws, yet gun murder rates of 3.2, 2.93, and 12.46, respectively (USA average 2.75 so all “above average” though statistical significance not determined). Then States with very loose gun access and lots of guns like New Hampshire, Vermont, and South Dakota have rates of 0.53, 0.75, and 0.68, respectively.
How “loose” are N.H. gun laws? Rather like when I was a kid in California and we didn’t bother locking the doors to our house and left the keys in the car “in case someone needed to move it”.
mo
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/violence-guns-puzzlement/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state
