re: Louisiana has nation's highest per capita gun death rate

It doesn't seem correlated with race:

"The five states with the highest per capita gun death rates in 2011 were Louisiana, Mississippi, Alaska, Wyoming, and Montana. Each of these states has extremely lax gun violence prevention laws as well as a higher rate of gun ownership. The state with the lowest gun death rate in the nation was Rhode Island, followed by Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey. Each of these states has strong gun violence prevention laws and has a lower rate of gun ownership."

Pile o ticks board

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but I am willing to bet the overall population in those states are less than most so it may correlate to the high per capita rate.

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Violence Policy Center

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Anything released buy this organization I'm skeptical of. The Violence Policy Center is a non-profit organization that pushes for more gun control. Statistics can be twisted to show whatever you want, and the people at The Violence Policy Center have become very good at it.

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The center concluded that states with the lowest overall gun death rates have lower rates of gun ownership and stronger gun violence prevention laws.

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I like them to explain how this explains Chicago. Second of all that statement is not true.

For example this chart is from the CDC website that they referenced in the article. Shows that Homicide rate is half of what it was 20 years ago, and hasn't made a severe jump in 10 years

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Louisiana has nation's highest per capita gun death rate

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WE'RE NUMBER 1 !!!

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The only answer is MOAR GUNZ!!

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The most logical answer is less black people, but the solution is frowned upon by some.

Without black crime, the US crime rate would be lower than Belgium. Bottom line, one race drives all of these violent crime statistics.

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When is America going to realize that it's a poverty thing much more than a race thing?

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America will start realizing that when it becomes true. Sure, some crime is driven by poverty, but there are lot of poor white communities throughout the country that don't have murder problems.

The correlation between race and crime isn't coincidental; it's direct.

Now that we've seen the skewed version, lets take a look at the official stats shall we?

TLDR Version: There is no statistical correlation between firearm murders and gun ownership.

Top 10 states with gun ownership vs likelihood (if you ARE murdered) of being murdered with a firearm:

1. Wyoming - 59.7% ownership, 63% murders used firearms. (8 murders total. That's the kind of statistics this bullshite is about)
2. Alaska - 57.8% ownership, 61% murders used firearms.
3. Montana - 57.7% ownership, 57% murders used firearms.
4. South Dakota - 56.6% ownership, 57% murders used firearms.
5. West Virginia - 55.4% ownership, 49% murders used firearms.
6. Mississippi - 55.3% ownership, 73% murders used firearms.
6. Idaho - 55.3% ownership, 57% murders used firearms.
6. Arkansas - 55.3% ownership, 72% murders used firearms.
9. Alabama - 51.7% ownership, 68% murders used firearms.
10. North Dakota - 50.7% ownership, 44% murders used firearms.

Bottom 10 states with gun ownership vs likelihood (if you ARE murdered) of being murdered with a firearm:


40. Delaware - 25.5% ownership, 79% murders used firearms.
41. Florida - 24.5% ownership, FBI website had no data for florida.
42. California - 21.3% ownership, 69% murders used firearms.
42. Maryland - 21.3% ownership, 69% murders used firearms.
44. Illinois - 20.2% ownership, 80% murders used firearms.
45. New York - 18% ownership, 60% murders used firearms.
46. Connecticut - 16.7% ownership, 74% murders used firearms.
47. Rhode Island - 12.8% ownership, 55% murders used firearms.
48. Massachusetts - 12.6% ownership, 56% murders used firearms.
49. New Jersey - 12.3% ownership, 68% murders used firearms.
50. Hawaii - 6.7% ownership, 29% murders used firearms. (out of 24 total murders)

Gun Owners by population (state)

States with Extremely High Populations of Gun Owners(more than 50%)
1. Wyoming - 59.7%
2. Alaska - 57.8%
3. Montana - 57.7%
4. South Dakota - 56.6%
5. West Virginia - 55.4%
6. Mississippi - 55.3%
6. Idaho - 55.3%
6. Arkansas - 55.3%
9. Alabama - 51.7%
10. North Dakota - 50.7%

Deathrate per 100,000 for firearms. NOT Murder rate.

Showing latest available data.
Rank States Amount
# 1 District of Columbia: 31.2
# 2 Alaska: 20
# 3 Louisiana: 19.5
# 4 Wyoming: 18.8
# 5 Arizona: 18
= 6 Nevada: 17.3
= 6 Mississippi: 17.3
# 8 New Mexico: 16.6
# 9 Arkansas: 16.3
# 10 Alabama: 16.2
# 11 Tennessee: 15.4
# 12 West Virginia: 14.7
# 13 Montana: 14.5
# 14 South Carolina: 13.8
# 15 North Carolina: 13.6
# 16 Georgia: 13.4
= 17 Kentucky: 13.1
= 17 Oklahoma: 13.1
= 19 Missouri: 12.3
= 19 Idaho: 12.3

Side note, below is from the FBI website for MURDER from firearms. Not adjusted for population.

State Total murders Total firearms
California 1,811 1,257
Texas 1,246 805
New York 860 517
Pennsylvania 646 457
Michigan 558 413
Georgia 527 376
Illinois 453 364
Louisiana 437 351
Missouri 419 321
Ohio 460 310
Maryland 424 293
North Carolina 445 286
Virginia 369 250
New Jersey 363 246
Arizona 352 232
Tennessee 356 219
South Carolina 280 207
Indiana 198 142
Alabama 199 135
Mississippi 165 120
Massachusetts 209 118

And here's the same stats, but by percentage of murders committed with firearms.

Illinois 80%
Louisiana 80%
Missouri 77%
Michigan 74%
South Carolina 74%
Mississippi 73%
Indiana 72%
Georgia 71%
Pennsylvania 71%
California 69%
Maryland 69%
Alabama 68%
New Jersey 68%
Virginia 68%
Ohio 67%
Arizona 66%
Texas 65%
Kentucky 64%
North Carolina 64%
Tennessee 62%
New York 60%
Oklahoma 59%
Massachusetts 56%

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States with “strong” gun violence prevention laws were defined as those that add significant state regulation that is absent from federal law, such as restricting access to particularly hazardous and deadly types of firearms (for example, assault weapons)

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That's funny, because the vast majority of people killed by firearms are killed by handguns, not rifles.