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   >Red States Have Higher Gun Death Rates Than Blue States. Here's Why   
      
   Always cite the source!  Studies have shown that any sentence   
   beginning with: "Studies have shown..." is nonsense!   
      
   The relationship between gun ownership and firearm homicide rates in   
   the United States, 1981-2010  (Siegel M, Ross C, King C, 2013)   
   Am J Public Health. 2013 Nov;103(11):2098-105. doi:   
   10.2105/AJPH.2013.301409. Epub 2013 Sep 12.   
      
   It was published in *The American Journal of Public Health*, not JAMA.   
   This only matters if you're a stickler for bibliographic details, but,   
   then... does the name "Michael Bellsiles" mean anything to you?   
      
   The really *major* point I'd raise is that the design of the study is   
   incapable of stating "why" it's so that Republican states had greater   
   rates of gun deaths in the three decades under the study.  That little   
   matter is why John Lott has never been published... well... that and   
   the "Mary Rosh Affair", of course.   
      
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