Study Flags Seven States With High Rates of Accidental Gun Deaths

[SecularMotion]

Researchers seeking to identify each state's most "distinctive" kind of injury-related death uncovered a pattern that could help cut shootings across the South.

The study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that seven states — West Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee — all suffered from disproportionately high rates of unintentional firearm deaths.

The researchers noted that none of the states have laws requiring the safe storage of guns, have been shown to prevent accidental shootings, particularly among children.

"Restricting access for unauthorized individuals through safe storage of firearms might help to reduce the large disparity of unintentional firearm deaths occurring in these states," the Johns Hopkins researchers wrote.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-flags-seven-states-high-rates-accidental-gun-deaths-n525621

[CBGLuthier]

2. Charming.

[sarisataka]

4. The only thing that surprises me

is that it was hidden.

A poster accidentally posted a truism while attempting to broadbrush gun owners-

"gun fetishism is about bullying and control, and nothing else"

{emphasis added}

[DonP]

3. Wow!!! Another pro gun control "study"? Quelle Surprise?

I've come to the conclusion that the reason gun control is so pathetic as a movement, is because instead of actually ever doing anything legislatively, they spend all their time, effort and money on "studies" that say what they want them to say. Hoping against hope (and experience) that somehow just the right "study", or just the sheer cumulative mass of "studies", will finally make their case and Australian style gun control will magically happen some day.

Must be the case, since the OP and his ilk seem to average posting about 4+ "studies" a week without comment or other support.

But then again, posting somebody else "study" is a lot easier than actually doing anything I guess. Plus you don't have to get off the couch or write a check.

They balance it by posting a steady stream of crime stories, since the True Crime Group never seems to get any of the love. I guess they are supposed to make gun owners feel guilty?

But, for some odd reason they don't seem to ever post much about all those gun control "wins" in the legislatures, state or Federal?

[Eleanors38]

5. Hairy looking study...

Shows a U.S. map of childhood gun-related deaths, but are these deaths accidental or do they include homicides? If the latter, the data of a little over SIXTY (60) deaths each YEAR of is spread pretty thin over fifty states. If the latter, then the researchers are mixing two data sets.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

6. Most of those are solid Hillary states.

...

[awoke_in_2003]

7. I have to pick a nit

Since when are WV and KY the south?

[ManiacJoe]

8. I would go with the 1860s.

But I have never cared about such labels.
Being from the north, I usually associate them with "the south", the eastern USA south of Ohio-Penn-NJ.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. I guess since they didn't join the traitor states...

I never really considered them southern.

[gejohnston]

10. they weren't then

Kentucky was one of the four slave states that stayed in the Union, the other three were Missouri, Delaware, and Maryland. WV seceded from Virginia when Virginia seceded from the Union.

[ManiacJoe]

11. Learn something new every day.