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MS: Mississippi has 4th highest gun death rate, analysis finds
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Gun deaths in the U.S. have jumped 17 percent since the 2008 District of Columbia v. Hellerdecision in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there is a right to keep a handgun in the home for self-defense, according to a new analysis by the Violence Policy Center (VPC) of just-released 2016 data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention. Nationwide, the overall gun death rate (suicides, homicides, and unintentional shootings) increased from 10.21 per 100,000 in 2009 (the year after the Hellerdecision) to 11.96 per 100,000 in 2016. |
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MarkHamTownsend
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Correlation =/= causation.
Specious associations like these are intended to cause ignorant people to draw incorrect conclusions, such as, for example, SCOTUS decisions on the 2A cause more gun deaths.
Just wrong, just wrong. |
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