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As a companion piece to our post about gun ownership stats, this piece will explore a closely related dataset: gun deaths by state.
Before we can look at this data, we need to add an important filter. In this dataset, we're not going to consider suicides. While gun suicides are definitely an issue worth discussing, most people aren't a danger to themselves, so we're not going to include them. This significantly changes the data and has a major impact on the placement of each state in the rankings. This data also does not include DC, which has a higher gun homicide ranking than any state, but is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison as it's a city rather than a state.
So let's take a look at the states with the most and fewest gun homicides. We'll start with the most dangerous states, where gun homicides are the most prominent. Data comes from a Wikipedia distillation of CDC data.
And now for the states with the fewest gun homicides...
The "bad" list is rather unsurprising—it's almost entirely red states, to go along with New Mexico, Illinois and Maryland, blue states whose big cities have serious crime problems. The "good" list is a little more surprising; while it contains tight gun control state Massachusetts, there are also a few states that are very pro-gun. New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho, and Wyoming are especially known for having strong gun cultures and few rules. Perhaps they benefit from being more rural, as rural areas are much safer than urban ones. In general, this list is noticeably more rural as well as more northern than the previous one.
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