Hawaii Has 2nd Lowest Gun Death Rate
Not coincidentally, less than 10 percent of island households have firearms.
States with “weak gun violence prevention laws” and higher rates of gun ownership “have the highest overall gun death rates in the nation.”
That’s according to a analysis of 2011听data from the 鈥檚 National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
The five states with the highest per capita gun death rates that year were Louisiana, Mississippi, Alaska, Wyoming and Montana.
“Each of these states has extremely lax gun violence prevention laws as well as a higher rate of gun ownership,” according to .
A World War II USGI M1911 pistol.
Flickr: Mitch Barrie
States with the lowest overall gun death rates have lower rates of gun ownership and “some of the strongest gun violence prevention laws in the nation.”
The state with the lowest gun death rate in the nation was Rhode Island, followed by Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York听补苍诲 New Jersey.
When it comes to听gun ownership, just 9.7 percent of households in Hawaii听have firearms.听Our gun “death rate” is just 3.56 out of 100,000.
By contrast, 45.6 percent of Louisiana households have guns and the state’s gun death rate is 18.81.
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