 "Pro-Gun" States Lead the Nation in Per Capita Firearm Death Rates April
24, 2008—States
in the South and West with weak gun laws and high rates of gun
ownership lead the nation in overall firearm death rates according
to a new analysis issued today by the VPC of Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) data. The new VPC analysis uses 2005
data (the most recent available) from the CDC's National Center
for Injury Prevention and Control. The analysis reveals that the
five states with the highest per capita gun death rates were Louisiana,
Alaska, Montana, Tennessee, and Alabama. Each of these states
had a per capita gun death rate far exceeding the national per
capita gun death rate of 10.32 per 100,000.
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More Than 1,100 Murder-Suicide Deaths–From the Virginia Tech Massacre to Domestic Disputes–Occurred in 2007, New Study Estimates April
9, 2008—At
least 554 Americans died in murder-suicides during the first six
months of 2007 with the vast majority (88.5 percent) involving
a firearm, according to the third edition of the VPC study American
Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States. Using these
figures, the VPC estimates that more than 1,100 Americans died
in murder-suicides in 2007. The murder-suicides included in the
study range from high-profile mass shootings like the April 16,
2007, Virginia Tech massacre to familial shootings claiming the
lives of spouses and children.
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Supreme Court Prepares to Hear DC Gun Case March
17, 2008—The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled tomorrow to hear
oral arguments in a case challenging DC’s handgun ban, District
of Columbia v. Heller. Comparing Amici in the Heller Case Pro-gun
advocates and firearm industry representatives versus, well, virtually
everybody else.
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