Just as valid of a statistic is the fact that many of these crimes committed in the states shown above are due to guns bought legally in other states, and re-sold in others. My current home state, Virginia, is one of the more egregious gun exporters.
@robotsalad The horribly cynical part of me suspects that since it's one of the states with the smallest nonwhite populations, the incidents of gang violence and police-on-nonwhite violence are also disproportionately low.
But I suspect the real reason is that most of its guns end up in Massachusetts, and that most of the people upstate live too far away from each other to kill each other.
This suggests correlation, but it might simply be showing that states with left-leaning folks have stronger gun laws and fewer angry and violent idiots around them, while it also captures somewhat the opposite for right-leaning folks. I want this to be true and to capture causation, but I'm skeptical that it's more profound than any map visualization that tries to show something slick but is instead just a capture of where people live.
@parhamr unfortunately gun research of that type can't be done using any kind of gov't funding. And the CDC is all but banned from any sort of gun research.
Heck they want to ban doctors from simply asking about gun ownership. (http://www.theatlantic.com/health... passed in Florida but I think it's been overturned.)
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But I suspect the real reason is that most of its guns end up in Massachusetts, and that most of the people upstate live too far away from each other to kill each other.
Heck they want to ban doctors from simply asking about gun ownership. (http://www.theatlantic.com/health... passed in Florida but I think it's been overturned.)