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The statistics here are plenty incentive to regulate gun safety, which includes but is not limited to who is legally allowed to own a gun of any type.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...xceptionalism/

I am sure that article is behind a paywall, but sometimes if you search for the title contained in the URL, you can read it for free.

Ted Cruz was pressed by a British reporter and came up looking like a sweaty sputtering man in too small suit. Too bad that a British reporter is required to ask an American politician the tough questions to their face.

One of the graphics:


Nicholas Kristof's piece also had some very compelling statistics, and graphics by Bill Marsh:
How to Reduce Shootings

This one, "Fewer Guns = Fewer Deaths" shows the gun ownership rates by state, and states in red have gun death rates above the national average of 10.5 per 100,000 people.

Lowest 5: Hawaii, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York.
Highest 5: Vermont, Mississippi, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming.


This one shows gun death rate per 100,000 people (25 max) on the y axis, and the x axis being weakness of gun laws (weakest on right)

Stronger gun laws are correlated with lower death rates (lower left)
The states if red (upper right) received an "F" for gun law grades.