These days it seems that the exclusively interactive maps coming out of the USA are related to mass-shootings, gun homicides together with other gun related maps. Here's around other one.
The Oregonian's Gun Sellers inwards the United States map shows the number of licensed gun sellers per 100,000 people at county level. If yous mouse-over a county on the map yous tin persuasion the number of gun sellers inwards the county together with the full population.
One of the big questions hither must endure whether the number of licensed importers, pawnshops together with sellers of firearms inwards a county truly has whatever number on the number of gun crimes inwards the area. The Oregonian's own US Gun Deaths Map 2004-2010 provides a non bad comparison. This map shows the average number of gun deaths per 100,000 county residents. The map hence does render a proficient overview of where the virtually gun deaths are occurring, inwards proportion to the population.
If yous compare the 2 maps it seems that at that topographic point may endure around correlation betwixt the number of gun sellers inwards around counties together with the number of gun deaths - only non inwards many other areas. For example, inwards around of the north-western states at that topographic point are a high number of gun sellers together with a high proportion of gun deaths. However, if yous await at the gun homicides map on the Oregonian yous volition meet that those north-western states truly accept a lower than average number of gun homicides. The bulk of those gun deaths inwards the north-west come upward from people killing themselves amongst guns.
The southern states tend to accept the highest gun homicides per population. If yous await at the choropleth map of gun sellers yous tin meet that the southward inwards full general truly has a lower than average number of gun sellers per population. So the link betwixt the number of licensed gun sellers together with the number of gun homicides inwards a county appears to endure pretty weak.
