Gun violence in the US

I grew up in Southern Indiana. It is mostly rural there. Farming, fishing, and hunting were just as popular as Nascar in the South.

Consequently, Indiana has a lot of gun owners, a low murder rate, and a low murder by gun rate.

We had almost 40 percent of people owning guns.

I've heard people equate more guns means less crime. The Indiana stats could be twisted to support that. They shouldn't be.

Indiana has 185 people per square mile. Is it the number of people per square mile that maters?

I don't think so. Massachusetts has 852 people per square mile and a murder rate that matches Indiana. Gun ownership is reported as 1/3 that of Indiana.

So if we use the shortage of guns causes murders theory, Massachusetts should have more murders than Indiana.

How many gun murders in Indiana where it's rural and many grow up around guns? 142!

How many gun murders in Massachusetts with it's big cities? 118.

Both have a similar population. IN at 6.4 million. MA at 6.5 million.

But Indiana should have roughly 2.500.000 guns.

Massachusetts should only have 845.000 guns.

So why do the kind, rural, conservative people of Indiana kill at the same rate as those bleeding heart, intellectual elite, city scum in Massachusetts.

Think carefully.

They're killing family because it's a long way to meet someone.