While the latest Rasmussen Reports survey of Likely U.S. Voters in the United States finds 51% want stricter gun control laws, 41% disagree. But the breakdown is interesting. Hispanics slightly oppose stricter gun control. Democrats overwhelmingly support stricter gun control, but both Republicans and others oppose it.
New Research: The worst 2% of U.S. counties produce an even larger share of firearm murders than of murders overall. Those counties account for 53% of all murders but 57% of firearm murders. U.S. murders are concentrated far more heavily than Canada’s and Australia’s.
We have previously examined how heavily murders concentrate in the United States, but this is our first analysis of firearm homicide concentration. The first two graphs show that the worst 2% to 5% of counties account for a share of firearm murders about four...





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