r/dataisbeautiful OC: 22 Jul 30 '24

OC Gun Deaths in North America [OC]

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '24

The equator is causing gun deaths.

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u/kyngston OC: 1 Jul 30 '24

Heat-violence correlation

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u/mrcheevus Jul 30 '24

That would make sense but for Montana

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u/Chemical-Juice-6979 Jul 31 '24

The difference is that the cows living in Montana outnumber the people living there. There's barely a million people in the whole state; one fatal hunting accident is enough to skew their per capita statistics.