was thinking about Slappy when I heard this.

[callmeslick]

....somehow, on another corner of the Interweb, there was a discussion of NH, and the very low gun death rate, despite pretty liberal gun regulations.
Turns out the factor isn't so much population being more spread out(my claim to Slappy), nor any damn thing to do with responsible gun owners and all. No, it turns out that New Hampshire is in the bottom quartile in the US in number of guns owned per capita. The speculation in the other discussion was around gun nuts moving to NH because of the laws, and whether the death rate would go up.

[Pudfark]

....somehow, on another corner of the Interweb, there was a discussion of NH, and the very low gun death rate, despite pretty liberal gun regulations.
Turns out the factor isn't so much population being more spread out(my claim to Slappy), nor any damn thing to do with responsible gun owners and all. No, it turns out that New Hampshire is in the bottom quartile in the US in number of guns owned per capita. The speculation in the other discussion was around gun nuts moving to NH because of the laws, and whether the death rate would go up.

If'n yer gonna use that there word in red above....folks would rightly expect to see some facts involved?

Here be below sum fact's...that ya could'a provided, but didn't. No surprise to me and them others. I'll throw in the link fer free....It's a link, ya'd find hard to argue. It came from you lib's.

http://usliberals.about.com/od/Election ... lation.htm

The pertinent parts....you left out from the above link.

"States with High Populations of Gun Owners
11. Kentucky - 47.7%
12. Wisconsin - 44.4% (Battleground state. See Wisconsin in 2012 Elections.)
13. Louisiana - 44.1%
14. Utah - 43.9%
14. Tennessee - 43.9%
16. Oklahoma - 42.9%
16. Iowa - 42.9% (Battleground state. See Iowa in 2012 Elections.)
18. South Carolina - 42.3%
19. Kansas - 42.1%
20. Vermont - 42.0%
21. Missouri - 41.7% (Battleground state. See Missouri in 2012 Elections.)
21. Minnesota - 41.7%
23. North Carolina - 41.3% (Battleground state. See North Carolina in 2012 Elections.)
24. Maine - 40.5%
25. Georgia - 40.3%

States with Median Populations of Gun Owners
26. Oregon - 39.8%
27. Indiana - 39.1%
28. Nebraska - 38.6%
29. Michigan - 38.4% (Battleground state. See Michigan in 2012 Elections.)
30. Texas - 35.9%
31. Virginia - 35.1% (Battleground state. See Virginia in 2012 Elections.)
32. New Mexico - 34.8% (Battleground state. See New Mexico in 2012 Elections.)
33. Colorado - 34.7% (Battleground state. See Colorado in 2012 Elections.)
33. Pennsylvania - 34.7% (Battleground state. See Pennsylvania in 2012 Elections.)
35. Nevada - 33.8% (Battleground state. See Nevada in 2012 Elections.)
36. Washington - 33.1%
37. Ohio - 32.4% (Battleground state. See Ohio in 2012 Elections.)
38. Arizona - 31.1% (Battleground state. See Arizona in 2012 Elections.)
39. New Hampshire - 30.0% (Battleground state. See New Hampshire in 2012 Elections.)

States with Below Median Populations of Gun Owners
40. Delaware - 25.5%
41. Florida - 24.5% (Battleground state. See Florida in 2012 Elections.)
42. California - 21.3%
42. Maryland - 21.3%
44. Illinois - 20.2%
45. New York - 18%
46. Connecticut - 16.7%
47. Rhode Island - 12.8%
48. Massachusetts - 12.6%
49. New Jersey - 12.3%
50. Hawaii - 6.7%"

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