But guns cause crime
A bit back, we mentioned how North Dakota had zero firearms related homicides and how they had lax gun laws. Well, reader Dan emails:
The final “2008 FBI Crime In the U.S.” report data added one more homicide to ND’s preliminary stats (a 50% increase! 😉 ), but the overall situation remained unchanged; no firearms-related murders/non-negligent homicides in North Dakota in the entire calendar year of 2008. In addition to the two stabbings identified previously, the third death was assigned to the “Hands, fists, feet, etc.” category.
Data here and here. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership has ranked North Dakota 44 out of 50 in gun control.
September 21st, 2009 at 9:11 am
Also good news Homicide was down 75% from 2007 in North Dakota!
September 21st, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Markie Marxist sez: “Our Marxist/warrior/hero/criminals committed no firearms murders in all of North Dakota? That’s outrageous! They’re supposed to be ripping off capitalism and destabilizing America! It’s obvious that they’re being discouraged by a lack of gun control that would disarm their victims for them. We communists are going to have to pick up the pace if we ever hope to impose totalitarianism on North Dakota! Those people just aren’t being subversive!”
September 21st, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Idaho, 1.5 homicides per 100K population, and only 3 other states come in lower (and not all of the 20 something homicides in Idaho involved a gun). One of those is New Hamp, which is even less “lawed up” than we are. We might need to nominate NH for “honorary Wild West” status.
Less gun laws, not more, that’s the answer.