So, the Texas model is the way to go?Most of them....when the democrat party attacks the police to the point of handicapping them, then continues to release the most violent gun offenders over and over again.....those poicies create the gun murder rate....the gun murder rate is not increased by normal people owning and carrying guns for self defense...
- There were 3,683 gun-related deaths in Texas in 2019.
- In 2018, 64% of all Texas suicides were by firearm.
- In 2018, nearly 73% of veteran suicides in Texas were by firearm according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- In 2018, 174 women in Texas were killed by a male intimate partner—59% of those murders were by firearm.
- Women in Texas are 24% more likely to be murdered with a gun than women in other states.
- In 2019, at least 32 Texan children ages 0-17 died in unintentional shootings.
In California, 2,945 people were killed by guns in 2019, or 7.5 for every 100,000 people, the seventh lowest firearm fatality rate among states. Of all deaths from gun violence in the state that year, 1,586 were classified as suicides and 1,246 as homicides.