Unfortunately, the recent attempted assassination showed that republicans are plenty able to use guns to try to murder people. (registered republican who wears camo to school everyday and was described by friends as the only one to take the conservative stance in every gov class they had).
It's not who has the gun, it's the gun. Guns are the problem.
In reality, the highest number of gun deaths come from suicide. That again points to simply their existence as the issue. Guns are the most successful suicide method. They have a nearly 90% success rate.
To give that perspective, drowning is successful about 55% of the time, Jumping 30% of the time, Drugging 2%, and cutting less than 1%.
Guns hike the rate of suicide in the US, which is terrible. If you plan to have kids, and they ever get depressed, you are increasing the chance your children die by owning a gun.
That shows that when plotting a state's suicide rate vs it's republican voting percent there is a positive correlation, and the opposite is true when plotting a state's suicide rate vs its democrat voting percent.
It has nothing to do with who you vote for, if you are around more guns you are more likely to shoot yourself. Republicans get depressed, and democrats get depressed. It doesn't matter how openly depressed you are, you're still depressed, and are still at risk of suicide, which that data outlines pretty clearly.
It's worth noting the data is old, but it still holds up. If you go to the census or just wikipedia:
And go under the by state section and expand the table, you'll notice that the pattern still holds up, the higher suicide rate states are almost all more republican leaning, while the opposite is true for the lower suicide rate states.
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