Guns in Nevada
Andrew Pridgen of the Nevada Appeal:
With more guns sold and registered per capita than anywhere in the U.S., Nevada is a gun state – always has been.
It also is the gun-death state. According to the Center for Disease Control, since 2000, Nevada has led the nation with an average of 26 gun-related deaths per 100,000 people.
However, no one can seem to get data from the CDC that agrees to those numbers.
November 19th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I found it not surprising that Andrew Pridgen’s “source” could’nt be found by anyone else. I pegged his article as nothing more than another anti’s PSH, especially when he compared Nevada with Iraq.
According to the FBI Nevada’s murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rate is 9.0 per 100,000, a far cry from the 26 that Pridgen claims.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_05.html
I’ll sooner believe FBI stats that acually exist over someone else’s non-existant ones.
November 20th, 2007 at 3:59 am
The stats for Nevada are always terribly skewed due to the nature of the tourist industry. Tourist incidents are added to the number4 of crimes but not added to the base population. For exampl, Reno/ Sparks a town of about 300000 can have a temporary population increase of 20,000 -60,000 any weekend.
the results of any of these studies should be taken with a grain oof salt.