More guns = more child deaths
A comparison of child deaths in the 15 states with highest household gun ownership and the six states with the lowest. Each group of states has a similar number of children ages 5 to 14, and those children die at similar rates from suicide and homicide where guns are not involved. But children in high-gun states are 2.2 times as likely to be murdered with guns, and amost 9 times as likely to kill themselves with guns, as children in low-gun states.
… high-gun states have:
… high-gun states have:
Source: David Hemenway in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
The 15 states with the highest average levels of household gun ownership: Wyoming, Montana, Alaska, South Dakota, Arkansas, West Virginia, Alabama, Idaho, Mississippi, North Dakota, Kentucky, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Utah and Louisiana. The 6 states with the lowest average gun levels: Hawaii, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and New York.
