Quote:Well lets look at the deaths per 100,000 population, shall we?

 

Data from 2013:

States from the Top will be in Blue

States from the Bottom will be in Red


Alaska - 19.8

Oklahoma - 17.5

Arizona - 14.1
Utah - 12.6

North Dakota - 11.8


California - 7.7

New Jersey - 5.7

Connecticut - 4.4

New York - 4.2

Massachusetts - 3.1



How about 2015?




 

 

I figured that you would come up with something like this.  Why use a select number (Deaths per 100.000 population)?  Because it makes your statistics look correct.  However, lets look at real numbers.

 

I'll compare the top two from my lists just as an example.

 

California is the most restrictive when it comes to gun laws.  Looking at 2015 stats, there was a population of 37,253,956.  So lets round that number down for our calculations.  37,253,956 / 100000 = 372.53956 so we'll round that number to 373.  Number of deaths then (using your chart) would be 373 * 7.7 = 2872.1 which we'll round to 2872 gun deaths.

 

Utah has the least restrictive gun laws.  Again, looking at 2015 stats, there was a population of 2,763,885.  Again we'll round that number down for our calculations.  2,763,885 / 100000 = 27.63885 and again we will round it up to 28.  So number of deaths would be (again using your chart) 28 * 12.2 = 341.6 which we'll round to 342.

 

So looking at our results right now, the state (California) with the most restrictive gun laws had more gun related deaths (2872) than the state with the least restrictive gun laws (Utah) with (342) gun related deaths.

 

Now what does this exercise prove?  You can make statistics say whatever you want.

---