We've argued that suicides should not be factored into overall firearms related deaths for years, yet Antis want to inflate "gun deaths" with those numbers. We've also argued that the rates for these suicides shouldn't be added either. The article from RECOIL used a new GIS analysis of firearms related deaths that associated rate averages to location and found something interesting. The rates of both show a disconnect breaking the myth that guns are the issue. Instead since you see very little overlap in high suicide rates where a gun was used and high murder rates where a gun was used you're seeing no correlation with "guns" themselves. https://www.recoilweb.com/geographic-evidence-that-gun-deaths-are-cultural-162216.html?utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+https://www.recoilweb.com/geographic-evidence-that-gun-deaths-are-cultural-162216.html&utm_content=Gun+Deaths+are+Cultural:+See+the+Stats+for+Yourself+|+Red+Dots+vs+Iron+Sights+|+DIY+Springfield+Hellcat+Trigger+Job&utm_campaign=Recoil+Newsletter+-+8/14/20
Gun suicides account for about two-thirds of gun deaths, so this map is going to look generally like the RST one. No huge surprises here. But there are many regions red in the “gun deaths” map that show blue in the “suicide” map, and the reason why is clear when you look at the “homicide” map here: Note, that in this version, we’ve changed the colors from the original website, in order to make the maps easier to read — the information they contain is the same. Look at the differences between gun homicides and gun suicides.
We hear a lot of banter from the “anti-gun” media that these problems are gun problems, and they’ve concocted this “gun deaths” number in order to lump these into the same problem and gloss over the differences. But if the problem were “guns,” then the hot spots on the suicide map and the hot spots on the homicide map would coincide, and would be related to gun ownership rates. There are only a few places where they overlap. Most of the hot zones for suicide have low homicide rates, and most of the hot zones for homicide have low suicide rates. The difference is stark. Let’s zoom in. Gun suicide is a California problem north of Sacramento. Gun homicide is a problem south of it. We see a geographic boundary that runs through Reno, Sacramento, and San Francisco where suicides are a problem to the north, and homicides are a problem to the south. I hear it’s nice in San Diego, and these maps confirm it.
Washington State has generally low homicide rates and suicide rates, out-side of a stretch along the Pacific coast. But anyone who has driven through Washington State knows that the character of the land, and the people, shifts around Spokane and starts to align more with the sorts of folks you meet in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Here gun homicides start to drop and approach zero, while suicides jump into the highest per-capita category. The exact same effects can be seen when you finish your drive eastward and land in Minnesota and the Great Lakes states:
Minneapolis has rates of both that equate to central and western Washington, and also has similar demographics. But once you get off into the rural areas to the north and east such as Michigan, the gun suicide rates jump significantly, and the gun homicide
rates crater to zero. It’s obviously not “the guns” there either. The difference in Michigan is tremendous, look at this: There’s basically a horizontal map line at 44 degrees latitude that bisects the peninsula, north of which we have zero gun homicide and lots of gun suicide, and below which we have … Bay City, Flint, Detroit, etc. It’s not the guns here.
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Look at Maine and Vermont: gun deaths by homicide are generally homogeneously low across New England, but gun suicide rates spike in Maine. And gun homicide rates crater in northern Vermont and southeastern Maine, where suicide rates are high.
Check out Pittsburgh: The counties to the east and north of Pittsburgh fit together like a puzzle piece. We see another one of these geographic boundaries, right down the Allegheny river where the problem flips in Parker, Pennsylvania. Other rivers mark similar boundaries. It’s uncanny.
Maryland, DC, and Virginia: Gun homicides in DC and Baltimore are high, suicides are low. Drive west and it flips. Drive south and it flips too, at least until you get to Richmond, after which it flips back. The stretch from Richmond to Norfolk and Virginia Beach is high homicide, low suicide.
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