Here are the graphs. I've been working on these for awhile. I finally found how to attach labels to data points after some futzing with VBScript.
There are some interesting trends. It's interesting to notes that when you compare violent crime rate to gun ownership, it trends UP until you reach about 30% of armed households, then trends slightly DOWN. It's easy to see how someone in the cultural mindset of NY, NJ, CA, IL, and MD would think that more guns equal more crime - on their half of the graph it does. It's also easy to see how someone from other places would see gun ownership as not related to violent crime at all - in their half of the graph, it isn't. And DC totally skews the graph, but I included it anyway.
Sources:
http://www.bradycampaign.org/facts/reportcards/2004/details.pdf
http://www.statemaster.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/interactives/guns/ownership.html
Excel spreadsheet is attached.
Reuse encouraged.
Discuss.
There are some interesting trends. It's interesting to notes that when you compare violent crime rate to gun ownership, it trends UP until you reach about 30% of armed households, then trends slightly DOWN. It's easy to see how someone in the cultural mindset of NY, NJ, CA, IL, and MD would think that more guns equal more crime - on their half of the graph it does. It's also easy to see how someone from other places would see gun ownership as not related to violent crime at all - in their half of the graph, it isn't. And DC totally skews the graph, but I included it anyway.
Sources:
http://www.bradycampaign.org/facts/reportcards/2004/details.pdf
http://www.statemaster.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/interactives/guns/ownership.html
Excel spreadsheet is attached.
Reuse encouraged.
Discuss.