Fortunately, these states also have the lowest numbers of gun deaths. Below is a table of each state's total registered guns and the number of registered guns per 1, people. Hover over Click on a tile for details. Guns per Capita by State The number of firearms per capita ranges significantly between states.
The four other states with the highest number of guns per capita are: New Hampshire : 47 per 1, New Mexico : 46 per 1, Virginia : 36 per 1, Alabama : 33 per 1, Seventeen states have at least 20 guns per capita. The three other states with the lowest guns per capita, all with 5 per 1,, are: Delaware Hawaii Massachusetts Similar to Rhode Island and New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts have the lowest gun ownership rates in the U.
Here are the 10 states with the highest numbers of guns: Texas , California , Florida , Virginia , Pennsylvania , Georgia , Arizona , Ohio , Alabama , North Carolina , The Small Arms Survey data, then, helps explain why the US leads the developed world in terms of these deaths. The US has nearly six times the gun homicide rate of Canada, more than seven times that of Sweden, and nearly 16 times that of Germany, according to United Nations data compiled by the Guardian.
These gun deaths are a big reason America has a much higher overall homicide rate , which includes non-gun deaths, than other developed nations. So why is the US such an outlier?
Researchers have found this to be true not just with homicides but also with suicides which in recent years accounted for around 60 percent of US gun deaths , domestic violence , and even violence against police. This chart, based on data from Jeffrey Swanson at Duke University, shows that the US is not an outlier when it comes to overall crime:.
This is in many ways intuitive: People of every country get into arguments and fights with friends, family, and peers. Stronger gun laws could help combat this. A review of studies in 10 countries, published in Epidemiologic Reviews , found that new legal restrictions on owning and purchasing guns tended to be followed by a drop in gun violence — a strong indicator that restricting access to guns can save lives. A review of the US evidence by RAND also linked some gun control measures, including background checks, to reduced injuries and deaths.
But America maintains some of the weakest gun laws in the developed world, effectively allowing civilians to own firearms at much greater levels than anywhere else. Until the US confronts that issue, it will continue seeing more shootings than the rest of the developed world. There is a significant link, however, between owning a gun for protection and perceptions of whether the world, broadly speaking, has become more dangerous. This reflects, in part, the fact that men who own guns are more likely than their female counterparts to have more than one reason for doing so.
Still, even after controlling for the number of reasons they own a gun, male gun owners remain more likely than their female counterparts to own multiple guns. Regardless of the type of community they lived in growing up, adults who grew up with guns in their households are far more likely than those who did not to be gun owners themselves.
Reasons for having had guns in the household growing up vary considerably across community type. Protection is cited far more often by adults younger than 30 than their older counterparts as a reason there were guns in their household growing up. By contrast, older Americans who grew up in a gun-owning household are far more likely than younger adults who grew up with guns to point to hunting as a reason guns were present in their household. While men and women are equally likely to say there were guns in their household growing up, men who grew up in a gun-owning household are far more likely than their female counterparts to say they went hunting or shooting when they were growing up.
Among all current and past gun owners, the average age at which Americans say they first became gun owners is 22 years. On average, men who grew up in a gun-owning household report that they first got their own gun when they were 17, compared with an average age of 26 for women who grew up with guns in their household. Overall, men who currently own guns or who have done so in the past report that they first became gun owners at age 19, on average; for women who own or previously owned guns, that age is Large majorities of about nine-in-ten or more among current and past gun owners say they have fired a gun, and this is true across demographic groups.
Among those who have never owned a gun, however, there are some significant demographic differences in the shares who say they have fired one. In many ways, these differences mirror the patterns in gun ownership. Part of the answer is that owning more than 40 guns is actually fairly common in the United States: there are an estimated 7. Super-owners were less diverse than gun owners overall, with super-owners more likely to be male, less likely to be black or Hispanic, and more likely to own a gun for protection, researchers said.
While Americans have a constitutional right to have a gun in their homes for self-defense, an increasing number of Americans also appear to be armed on a regular basis outside their homes. A newly released study found that three million Americans carry loaded handguns with them on a daily basis, and nine million Americans do so on a monthly basis.
Most of those choosing to carry are men. More than 38, Americans were killed with guns last year, according to preliminary statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC. Gun suicides make up the majority of gun deaths, more than 20, each year.
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