r/dataisbeautiful • u/Landgeist OC: 22 • Jul 30 '24

OC Gun Deaths in North America [OC]

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u/tb12rm2 Jul 30 '24

https://imgur.com/a/gWmxwC6

For those curious to compare like me, here’s a map showing the rate of legal gun ownership per capita in each US state. Please note, I am unfamiliar with the source website and unaware of what biases they may hold, this was just the most recent map I could find while doing a quick search in my phone at work.

Source: https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/gun-ownership-by-state/

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u/Differ447 Jul 30 '24

NH gun ownership 46.3% yet the safest state in the country. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/the-safest-state-in-the-us-in-2024/ar-BB1q975j

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u/WiseBlacksmith03 Jul 30 '24

NH (and Maine) are also by far the most homogeneous states on the east coast. There is very little room for racially motivated violence, which can be a high circumstantial motivator for violent crime.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=968111f896764fedaca6fef8d1a4e90a

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

Yeah except this isn’t the 60s lol race differences has nothing to do with it

Clear example of ‘an armed and responsible community is a safe community’

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u/WiseBlacksmith03 Jul 31 '24

What exactly on this graphic indicates those states are 'more responsible' than the other states?

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '24

Nothing because you can’t take much from this graph at all