Hillary Clinton on Virginia journalist shooting: ‘We must act to stop gun violence’ http://t.co/oEBF2MpsND pic.twitter.com/qhOf6omom0

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On a per capita basis, those states with lax gun laws have a higher firearms fatality rate than those that have strong gun laws. And of course, the South tends to have higher firearms fatality rates than the rest of the nation.