No, they don't. The states are listed and those with lowest gun murder rate are at the top of the list and those with the highest are listed at the bottom. California is almost in the middle with a rate of 3.4%. Every state under California on the list has a higher gun murder rate and most of those are southern states with low Brady scores. New York had a rate of 2.7% with a very high Brady score.
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Take the 15 states with the lowest brady score
9 have a gun homicide rate equal or lower than New York, which you mentioned
Our of the remaining 6, 3 have a similar, or lower score than california
Only Louisiania and Missouri have a higher rate
D.C. has the highest gun homicide rate, and is also very restrictive + has the least amount of gun ownership.
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Take the next 15 lowest brady scoring states -- all of them scoring lower than 10
9 -- over half -- have a lower -- often significantly lower gun homicide rate than your example of New York.
12 are lower than california
Only 3 of them have a higher rate than california
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Out of the 13 states with the highest gun homicide rate, 7, or slightly more than half, have above average or high brady scores.
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Out of the 15 states with the lowest gun homicide rate, only 5 have brady scores higher than 10.
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Again, southern states and brady score are two different things. You cannot conflate the two. Southern states hardly represent those states with a low brady score. Out of the 15 states with the lowest brady score, only 2 are southern states.
But if you insist on bringing geography into the mix, out of the 12 states that have a higher murder rate than california, only 5 -- less than half are southern states. Even if geography was relevant, which it isn't, the fact clearly disprove your assertion that most of the states with a higher murder rate than california are southern.
