Kids in the Line of Fire

State Ranking by Rate of Child Victims Murdered With a Handgun, 1995-1999
Ranking	State	Rate per 100,000
1	Maryland	2.86
2	Louisiana	2.40
3	Illinois	2.24
4	California	2.19
5	Nevada	1.85
6	Arizona	1.69
7	Missouri	1.39
8	Tennessee	1.37
9	Alabama	1.28
10	Georgia	1.27
11	Oklahoma	1.23
12	Mississippi	1.19
13	Pennsylvania	1.17
14	New Mexico	1.16
15	Texas	1.08
16	Connecticut	1.01
17	New York	1.01
18	Indiana	0.98
19	Virginia	0.97
20	Alaska	0.95
21	South Carolina	0.95
22	Arkansas	0.92
23	North Carolina	0.86
24	Michigan	0.78
25	Colorado	0.76
26	Wisconsin	0.73
27	New Jersey	0.72
28	Washington	0.68
29	Ohio	0.68
30	Rhode Island	0.67
31	Minnesota	0.55
32	Kentucky	0.53
33	Utah	0.41
34	Oregon	0.40
35	West Virginia	0.38
36	Massachusetts	0.26
37	Iowa	0.14

 

e) Florida and Kansas were not included in the overall analysis because they did not contribute five years of data. Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming were not ranked because they had less than five child victims overall. With an average of less than one child victim per year, the rates would be unreliable.

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