Hot Take Tuesday: Private Gun Ownership Reduces Homicides

Sources
All Homicide rates pulled from Macrotrends.net ex: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate

Guns Sold in the US pulled from https://www.safehome.org/data/firearms-guns-statistics/

Guns per capita by country from Small Arms Survey 2017, https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/resource/estimating-global-civilian-held-firearms-numbers

Gunownership by state from Rand.org https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/gun-ownership.html

US State Homicide rate from https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend circa 2018

Gun Control Grades from https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/strictest-gun-laws-by-state

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