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PostSubject: There's No Correlation Between Gun Ownership, Mass Shootings, and Murder Rates    There's No Correlation Between Gun Ownership, Mass Shootings, and Murder Rates Icon_minitimeMon Oct 12, 2015 5:15 am
While I was fact checking today's Mises Daily article, I checked some correlation coefficients of my own so I didn't have to rely on Volokh's numbers as my only source.
I approached the data a little differently than Volokh did and instead of using a subjective ranking by an organization like the Brady organization, I just looked at the rate of gun ownership in the state. After all, the argument is often that more guns and more gun owners leads to more violence.
So, I looked at the correlation between the gun ownership rate (a percentage on the x axis) and the murder rate (n per 100,000 on the y axis) in each state. The visual result is this:

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