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Overview

What is the relationship between gun ownership and gun violence in the US? This dataset contains gun ownership and mortality statistics by state.

A broader discussion of gun violence in the US can be found in this video and in this accompanying article.

Variables

• state: Two-letter state code.
• ownership_rate: The percentage of adults in each state who own a gun, according to a 2013 survey of 4,000 adults.
• mortality_rate: The number of deaths per 100,000 population in each state in 2014.

Data Source

Gun mortality statistics and Gun ownership rates.

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To access the data in R, type

source("http://www.openintro.org/books/statdata/gun_violence_us.R")

To access the data in SAS, type

filename gun_violence_us url 'http://www.openintro.org/books/statdata/gun_violence_us.csv'