Gun ownership is dorsum inwards the tidings 1 time again this week. In reply to yet to a greater extent than volume shootings inwards the U.S. I've seen a number of maps showing the locations of these horrendous crimes.
As mortal remarked on my Twitter feed these maps increasingly resemble population density maps. The U.S.'s crazy gun laws hateful that lots of people convey guns as well as it appears that where at that topographic point are lots of people amongst guns as well as so eventually a volume shooting volition occur.
The value of these maps is presumably inwards their stupor value. They scream 'Wake-up America, expect at all these mas shootings!" However people's views on gun ownership seem so entrenched that you lot convey to wonder how good they work. In fact I'm certain simply about wingnut pol volition 1 twenty-four sixty minutes menstruation holler for at these maps as well as claim that all these volume shootings inwards schools test that nosotros should start arming first-grade schoolkids.
The well-nigh illuminating map on the number of gun ownership that I've seen this calendar week was from Oregon Live. The US Gun Deaths Map 2004-2010 shows the average number of gun deaths per 100,000 county residents. The map thence does furnish simply about insight into where gun deaths are occurring to a greater extent than inwards proportion to population.
It is of import when viewing this map to sympathise that this is non a map of solely gun homicides. The map likewise shows deaths occurring from suicide attempts. The map does disclose withal that at that topographic point are simply about clear geographical differences inwards the number of gun deaths per population inwards unlike regions of the United States.
