Missourian
Diamond Member
Guns don't kill people, Cities kill people.
Why do the rural communities with twice as many legal gun owners and four times the owned firearms have 25 times less gun crime than urban communities?
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Of the 22 Missouri counties with populations between 25K and 50K, having a combined population of 806,764 persons, there were 163 total firearm assaults and 2604 total assaults utilizing weapons of any kind.
MSHP stats for 22 rural Missouri counties (PDF)
During the same period, in only the city of St. Louis and the city of Kansas City contained within the state of Missouri (half is in Kansas of course), with a combined population of 793,587 persons, there were a total of 4,143 firearm assaults and 8986 total assaults utilizing weapons of any kind.
MSHP stats for St. Louis (PDF)
MSHP stats for KC, MO (PDF)
The 2006 stats on Missouri crime came from this website : Missouri State Highway Patrol Statisical Analysis Center, they are the most recent available.
The 2004 rural/urban chart came from this website : Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2004 study.
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