Thursday, October 8, 2015

Is there a relationship between gun deaths per state and state gun laws?

The debate rages - we will unpack these in 2306 soon, but here are a two links to get going on it. The difference appears to be in what data people decide to study.

- Obama’s claim that ‘states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths’.
- Zero correlation between state homicide rate and state gun laws.