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And ... they are generally pro-gun states. see:

http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/01/02/the-safest-states-in-america/2/

Most dangerous , is Alaska

Anybody crazy enough to live in that freezer may be made dangerous by their frozen brain cells. At least that's what a friend (an ER surgeon in Anchorage) tells me!

Or, was it alcohol that causes the violence?

Check the graphs at the bottom of the page...

Link

Phil

It helps to look at the demographics of the serious crimes committed in Alaska. There's very few places that I've gone in this state where I've felt unsafe. On the other hand, most big cities in the Lower 48 put me on edge to some extent.

Vermont at number one makes the anti gun idiots heads explode. We have basically no gun laws, no permit necessary to own handguns, and can carry open or concealed. And almost no crime, figure that out?

Crime rates tend to be higher in large urban areas. Several of the 10 most dangerous states were home to cities that had relatively high violent crime rates. Nine of the 50 most dangerous large U.S. cities were located in one or more of the 10 most dangerous states. Memphis, Tennessee; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Baltimore, Maryland in particular had nearly the highest violent crime rates among U.S. cities and likely contributed substantially to their states� overall crime problems.

People living in the nation�s most dangerous states were also far more likely than other Americans to live in poverty. The poverty rate in six of the 10 states was higher than the national rate of 15.8% last year. Nearly 22% of New Mexico residents lived below the poverty line, the second-highest nationwide and the highest on this list.

FWIW, a lot of Alaska's crime tends to occur within the Native community....domestic stuff fueled by alcohol. I used to get into a lot of different villages for work and never really felt threatened in any of them myself, but some were known as places where a lot of domestic violence occurred. An out of control drunk running around with a gun gets ugly.

I was pleased to see Wyoming get the high rating (#4). I was not aware of the high income levels and high levels of education, guess I don't live in the right part of the state.

Wyoming has Constitutional Carry and very few gun laws at all , not everyone carries but muggings, carjackings and home invasions are almost unheard of, guess why?

Utah's crime rate went up slightly due mainly to all our z's.

Martinez, Rodriguez, Lopez...

The whole damn thing is about racial demographics, nothing more.

White people are much less likely to kill yer ass than a Negro or a spic. It's all simple math.

Ghost has a point. The Washington Post has a map out of murders in the DC basin. Just about none west of the Rock Creek line, scads in the eastern, poorer parts. And the vics? Overwhelmingly black and male.

but you're not allowed to point that out. its racist.

white people kill about as many in numbers as blacks kill...but blacks only comprise 12.8% of the population

add to that they have about 40% of all abortions performed per year.

True. Plot the states from most dangerous to least and they'll follow the racial makeup almost perfectly. It's the 800 lb. gorilla in the room that you're not supposed to talk about.

You also have no people and the ones you do have are white.

The sad part is most of the violent states are also pro gun.

It is not as straight foward as we would like to think.

I live in a small town on Long Island NY and no one remembers a homicide ever being committed

I have lived here for 60 years.

They're also all states with large numbers of minorities whether they're black, hispanic, or indian.

It isn't straight forward, you have to look beyond the numbers a bit to figure out why things are the way they are. My old economics professor called it "lying with statistics".

Another example of that is the often quoted statistic that republican voting states receive more welfare than democrat states. That's a favorite the liberals like to trot out. You have to look at it a bit to understand that one however. Take my home state of Mississippi, it's about 60% white/40% black. The voting is along racial lines for the most part, whites vote republican and blacks vote democrat. Since whites outnumber blacks (for the time being) the state goes republican for national elections. Mississippi gets a lot of welfare money though because it's 40% black and virtually all of them are on some form of welfare, therefore we're one of the states at the top of the welfare list. The media would have you believe that there's a link between voting republican and receiving welfare when it's exactly the opposite, it's not the republican voters that are receiving the welfare checks. The welfare bunch votes almost exclusively democrat in Mississippi. States don't receive welfare, people do, but if you listened to the democrats they'd have you believe there's a link between being voting republican and being a welfare deadbeat.

I went to a handgun violence symposium at the U of WA law school 12 years ago.
The map of the population density of Seattle looks very different than a map of handgun violence incidents.
The crime only happens in the black neighborhood.

I live in a city of 20,000. In our 150 years, we have had two people who live here commit murder. Both were black males killing white females. The city is 0.2% black. What are the chances?