You are the one you began this by specifically and deceptively linking states with higher crime and more gun restrictions and trying to make conclusions, while posting no data ("The areas with more open gun laws, and less overall restriction, have lower crime rates...That fact sort of discredits your statements doesn't it? "). It isn't bending data to point out the flaws in your original point, and over-riding issues that fully explain such disparities. I am glad to see you backtrack on your first statement (Now: "The whole question is highly multifactoral and cannot simply be blamed on gun ownership.").

Of course, it won't matter, because that deceptive talking point that you began with resurrects itself repeatedly.


For posterity, here is the map of firearm deaths (total, because I care about suicides and accidental deaths). Compare with the red/blue divide and the 2016 map: