Reply #9: "Gun death" rate is a meaningless, bullshit measure that tells you nothing about public safety

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ID, IA, ME, MO, NE, NH, ND, OR, SD, UT, WA, WI, and WY all have lower murder rates than Connecticut, and I'd bet that most of them have higher rates of gun ownership than Connecticut.

Some states that have strict gun control laws and presumably low rates of gun ownership (e.g. CA, NJ, NY), all have higher murder rates than does Connecticut.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004912.html

N&U for posting an obviously biased opinion piece that claims to draw data from an unreferenced "study", and even implies a CAUSAL relationship between gun ownership and crime, when there is no data to support such a conclusion.

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