Where IS the gun "problem"? :: 05/07/2013

Its probably not in the suburbs, or on farms, or in thinly populated States. As you might have guessed, where there is massive and draconian gun control, there is gun crime. I know that's counterintuitive, and the gun grabbers don't want you to know it. Read on to see some real statistics that really have Democrats in big cities upset. Its obvious, but taking our guns isn't going to cure inner city violence.

This is an interesting map that confirms what we intuitively sense: that the misuse of firearms occurs principally in metropolitan areas that are predominantly Democrat controlled. I checked the data source - the CDC - at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6018a1.htm and found the attached document cited in the map image (also attached). The cities shown in the map are listed in the CDC report as having the highest mortality rates from firearms. The martin Prosperity Institute inserted the political data. The Martin Prosperity Institute http://martinprosperity.org/ is a department at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/ (Canada). I submit that it would be difficult for Democrats to discount this data on any intellectually honest level; though I expect that they might. Is it any wonder that the Democrats are screaming that the problem is guns to distract us when they likely know the problem is them.