Originally posted by FalconPaunch!
It might be worth comparing every state or at least more than just the meme state, because I'm pretty sure New York, Florida, Illinois and California have high gun crime rates too and wasn't Sandy Hook in Connecticut?
There's statistics you know, even broken down by what types of gun crimes.
But the states with the loosest gun laws tend to have the higher rates of violent gun crimes per capita.
The Surprising Geography of Gun Violence
iirc, also statistically speaking, if you keep a gun(s) in your home, you have a much higher chance of being a victim of a gun crime than you are of using said gun to stop a crime.