An easy subject for further study would be to do New York gun-death rates by county, which would likely find gun deaths disproportionately high in The City and underrepresented in the homogeneous rural counties.
Given that gun death data is pretty stable, the study is still likely to be reasonably valid.
Massachusetts, with some of the strictest gun laws in the country has by far the lowest gun death rate.
After that, I layered in some population data (I chose April 2000) to get a gun death rate normalized for population size.
So while the NRA trains people in gun safety and publishes books about gun care, it avoids drawing a connection between the carelessness of law-abiding gun owners and America's still-high rate of needless gun death.
It would appear to me that our greatest failure comes from elected officials continuing to pander to the gun lobby and refusing to discuss ways to strengthen our guns laws to reduce gun death and injury.
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Mormon Idaho, with its open gun laws and low gun-death rate, is pretty homogeneous.
Mr Dean is for the death penalty, against gun control, for fiscal responsibility and wary of foreign entanglements.
So, suicide tops homicide by nearly two to one in the gun-death business.
Meanwhile, the authorities in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit say the death toll after a gun battle between rival gangs has now risen to at least 29.
So, what we learn is that states that in my earlier view of gun homicide showed up with low gun-death rates like Idaho, lie toward the top to the total death-by-firearm statistics.
Mr Duggan also used government health statistics to demonstrate that states with higher magazine sales suffered higher rates of gun-related death.
It was the smoking gun behind the death of Harbury's husband.
Speaking at Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, Durbin mentioned Pendleton's death as he argued that more must be done to stop gun crimes.
Yes, as Vermont's governor he signed the most liberal gay-marriage bill in the country, but he supports gun rights and the death penalty.
Three police officers face disciplinary action for failing to act on a warning that the man who murdered his ex-lover had a gun and had made death threats.
Baby Jonylah's death is just the latest episode of gun violence in Chicago.
In the AP interview, McLelland said he, too, began carrying a gun after Hasse's death and was answering his door more carefully.
"Ms. Halligan has a well-documented record of advocating extreme positions on constitutional issues, pushing legal arguments beyond what I think is reasonable, including in cases involving Second Amendment gun rights, abortion, the death penalty and others, " said Sen.
An unhinged gun fanatic was thrown in jail last night for making a series of anonymous death-threat phone calls to Rep. Carolyn Maloney -- in apparent protest of her proposed legislation requiring gun owner insurance.
Mr Warner has already broken with his running-mates over their support for tougher gun laws and a moratorium on the death penalty.
Murtaza's death all but guaranteed that: he died in 1996 in a gun battle with police outside his Karachi home.
The committee's questions once again touched on a range of hot-button issues, including gun control, abortion, same-sex marriage, the death penalty, and the role of international law in American jurisprudence.
Whether judged insane and then probably committed for life or judged sane and probably sentenced to death, let us not forget that this horrific, heinous example of random gun violence should not have happened.
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Kyle, 38, was shot to death Saturday, by a former Marine, police say, while shooting for fun on a Texas gun range.
In March 2007, Wilson was sentenced to death for killing the two undercover officers, James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews, on Staten Island during a gun sale.
Six days before the failed gun attack - no arrests have been made yet - Mr Pandey had his first near-assignation with death.
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