Kids in the Line of Fire

State Ranking by Percentage of Homicides with Child Victims In Which a Handgun Was Used, 1995-1999
Ranking	State	Percentage of child victim homicides involving a handgun
1	Mississippi	67.2
2	Illinois	66.1
3	Maryland	65.5
4	California	62.3
5	Alabama	61.6
6	Pennsylvania	58.5
7	Tennessee	58.4
8	Louisiana	57.7
9	Arizona	57.3
10	Nevada	54.9
11	Georgia	54.4
12	Connecticut	54.1
13	Indiana	53.3
14	Missouri	51.1
15	New Mexico	50.0
16	New York	49.7
17	Oklahoma	48.6
18	Virginia	47.9
19	Rhode Island	47.1
20	Wisconsin	46.2
21	Ohio	45.1
22	New Jersey	44.7
23	South Carolina	44.6
24	Minnesota	44.2
25	North Carolina	43.6
26	Texas	43.3
27	West Virginia	42.1
28	Kentucky	39.4
29	Washington	36.6
30	Arkansas	36.1
31	Alaska	34.6
32	Colorado	34.2
33	Massachusetts	33.3
34	Utah	32.6
35	Oregon	32.0
36	Michigan	29.8
37	Iowa	20.0

g) 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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