teddyR: DC has one of the highest Murder rates per capita in the US, despite the fact that law-abiding citizens were only recently permitted to own guns. DC has a criminal problem, not a firearm problem
Bull poo; DC has always allowed rifles & I think shot guns as well; and during the handgun ban period ~1976 - 2008, it's ~550,000 residents averaged about 100,000 long guns, or near a 20% gun ownership rate. DC has always been a may issue jurisdiction prior to 2008 - confiteor dunno what it is now.
Even some DC residents could own handguns during the ban, business owners, ex cops, certain federal employees I believe.
Not up to speed on DC firearm regulations, teddyR, shouldn't profess them.
~2015 DC homicide rate, 15.9
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Memphis Police Dept investigated 168 murders in 2014 .. Out of 168 homicides, police said 24 of the killings are justifiable. {2014 I think} Gun homicides per 100,000 people: 19.38
may 12, 2016: Of the 79 homicides so far,.. 65 of the 79 murders to date involved firearms... murder rate was up 69%over 2015 and 43% over 2006
Note only Maryland is a gun control state, the rest are pro gun shall issue: Homicide data for 2013 don’t give us a clear picture of homicides only by firearm; however, 70 percent of homicides for the year were by firearm. The 10 states with the highest homicide rates were: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Maryland, Oklahoma, South Carolina, New Mexico, Missouri and Michigan. That lists includes six states that also have the highest firearm death rates.
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, both groups that advocate for strong gun laws, published a scorecard on state gun laws in 2013, giving higher letter grades to states with stronger gun laws. Nine of the 10 states with the highest firearm death rates, according to the CDC, got an “F” for their gun laws, and one of them got a “D-.” (Note that most states — 26 of them — received an “F.”) Seven of the states with the lowest firearm death rates got a “B” or higher; two received a “C” or “C-“; and one — New Hampshire — got a “D-.”
(low homicide rate related to low population density): eight of the 10 states with the lowest homicide rates all got “D” or “F” grades from the Brady Campaign analysis.
http://www.factcheck.org/2015/10/gun-laws-deaths-and-crimes/
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