A map claiming to show levels of gun violence across the United States says that states with more guns have lower levels
Lead Stories found the map was created by a Medium blogger in 2017 to show the results of the 2016 presidential election by congressional district, not gun violence statistics.See the sources for this fact-check
The graphic did not cite what statistics were used to create the map. But the map is not related to gun violence statistics. As Lead StoriesDavid Hemenway, director of Harvard University’s Injury Control Research Center and a firearm injury prevention expert, said there is no data on the number of firearms in each county, as the map suggests.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which publishes the most reliable statistics on gun deaths, shows that in 2022 Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico and Alabama were the states with the highest firearm death rates, and Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Jersey and New York had the lowest gun death rates.
We rate the claim that states that have 97% of guns are the states with the least amount of gun violence False.Phone interview with David Hemenway, director of Harvard University’s Injury Control Research Center, Feb. 22, 2024Email interview with Cass Crifasi, co-director of John Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, Feb. 22. 2024
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