Excerpt from the Fox News article ‘States with higher rates of gun ownership do not correlate with more gun murders, data show’
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“Gun ownership is higher in states with fewer restrictions, and homicide rates in these states are lower. People can protect themselves,” George Mason University Professor Emerita Joyce Lee Malcolm told Fox News Digital of what she’s found through her research.
Fox News Digital compiled FBI data from 2019 detailing murders and gun murders per 100,000 population for most states, as well as assembled Rand Corporation data released in 2020 showing the percentage of households with at least one firearm in 2016.
The data show that many states with higher percentages of gun ownership had lower or similar murder and gun murder rates to states with strict gun control.
