Red State vs. Blue State: Red lead in gun deaths
In the continuing analysis of red states vs. blue states, the red states are dominant in another area - gun deaths. Red represents them well for the blood they spill and the reckless violence and deaths they shed.
David Roper analyzes the 1996 Presidential election and conforms what people knew all along. The red states who vote Republican and are obsessed with distributing guns, even to suicidal maniacs and criminals, are paying for it with their own blood. Red states have a strongly high correlation for gun deaths.
Statemaster.com has gun death statistics from 2002 which also confirms the inordinately higher gun deaths of red states. Sure, some of those right-wing wackos point out that Washington D.C. has the highest gun death rates, but D.C. isn't even a state, and it's population is so small and by far the smallest of all states, it is an outlier and statistical anomaly. Besides, the D.C. criminals get their guns from Virginia and south, which is more support for national gun control laws rather than state laws.
Looking at all 50 states, the correlation is staggering. Red states have higher gun death rates. Period.
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David Roper analyzes the 1996 Presidential election and conforms what people knew all along. The red states who vote Republican and are obsessed with distributing guns, even to suicidal maniacs and criminals, are paying for it with their own blood. Red states have a strongly high correlation for gun deaths.
Statemaster.com has gun death statistics from 2002 which also confirms the inordinately higher gun deaths of red states. Sure, some of those right-wing wackos point out that Washington D.C. has the highest gun death rates, but D.C. isn't even a state, and it's population is so small and by far the smallest of all states, it is an outlier and statistical anomaly. Besides, the D.C. criminals get their guns from Virginia and south, which is more support for national gun control laws rather than state laws.
Looking at all 50 states, the correlation is staggering. Red states have higher gun death rates. Period.
State and Gun death rate
2004 vote (per 100,000)
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D.C. 31.2
Alaska 20.0
Louisiana 19.5
Wyoming 18.8
Arizona 18.0
Mississippi 17.3
Nevada 17.3
New Mexico 16.6
Arkansas 16.3
Alabama 16.2
Tennessee 15.4
West Virginia 14.7
Montana 14.5
South Carolina 13.8
North Carolina 13.6
Georgia 13.4
Kentucky 13.1
Oklahoma 13.1
Idaho 12.3
Missouri 12.3
Indiana 11.7
Colorado 11.5
Maryland 11.5
Florida 11.1
Virginia 11.1
Texas 11.0
Michigan 10.9
Oregon 10.5
Pennsylvania 9.9
California 9.8
Illinois 9.7
Kansas 9.7
Utah 9.7
Vermont 9.6
Ohio 9.3
Washington 9.3
Delaware 9.1
North Dakota 9.1
Nebraska 8.1
Wisconsin 8.1
South Dakota 7.9
Iowa 6.7
Maine 6.5
Minnesota 6.0
New Hampshire 5.8
New York 5.1
Rhode Island 5.1
New Jersey 4.9
Connecticut 4.3
Massachusetts 3.1
Hawaii 2.8
Related Links:
Red States are hazardous to your children's health
Red State vs. Blue State battle: Suicide rates
More of Sailer's lies on marriage (Divorce rates of red states)
Sailer's lies on white birth rates by state
posted by sailerfraud at
6:42 PM
3 Comments:
And yet Kennesaw, Georgia--a red state city that requires gun ownership--has a low crime rate and no murders, but Morton Grove, IL--a blue state that bans guns--has a high crime rate and plenty of murders.
http://lagniappeslair.blogspot.com/2007/04/25-years-of-mandatory-gun-ownership-no.html
Go figure.
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Me, at 11:55 AM
Not necessarily. Here is a thorough article debunking the Kennesaw myth.
http://progressivevalues.blogspot.com/2007/04/kennesaw-georgia-gun-violence-reduction.html
Even Wikipedia finds discrepencies.
"Criminologist and gun-control critic Gary Kleck attributes a drop of 89% in the residential burglary rate to the law (Kleck, 1991), and Kennesaw is often cited by advocates of gun ownership as evidence that gun ownership deters crime (see, for instance, this 2004 sheet of talking points from the Gun Owners Foundation). Other criminologists dispute the 89% figure, using the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting data, and find instead a small, statistically insignificant increase in burglaries after the law was passed (McDowall, Wiersema and Loftin, 1989; McDowall, Lizotte and Wiersema, 1991)."
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sailerfraud, at 9:35 PM
DC has a larger population than Wyoming. Not that I disagree with you about the issue, but it helps if your facts are accurate.
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