While a whole load of who knows who they are folks all bloviating about ‘gun rights,’ attributing gun violence to ‘urban crime,’ and declaring that gun regulation ‘doesn’t work,’ here are the numbers — deaths by gunfire per 100,000 population, ranked.

Notice a pattern? The deadliest states are primarily rural and ‘conservative’; the least deadly are primarily urban, ‘liberal’ and have the strictest gun regulation our courts currently allow.

Source: CDC mortality records. Google it or whatever you use. I’m not doing your homework.

The highest incidence of gun mortality in the U.S.:

Mississippi 28.6
Louisiana 26.3
Wyoming 25.9
Missouri 23.9
Alabama 23.6
Alaska 23.5
New Mexico 22.7
Arkansas 22.6
South Carolina 22
Tennessee 21.3
Montana 20.9
Oklahoma 20.7
Kentucky 20

The lowest rate of gun mortality in the U.S:

Minnesota 8.9
California 8.5
Connecticut 6
New York 5.3
Rhode Island 5.1
New Jersey 5
Massachusetts 3.7
Hawaii 3.4