The following is from Market Watch
SilviaAscarelli
You’re most likely to die because of a gun if you live in Alaska.
Deaths by firearms in Alaska totaled 19.6 per 100,000 people in 2013, the most recent data available, according to the Health Indicators Warehouse, using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Center for Health Statistics.
That is almost double the national rate of 10.6 deaths per 100,000 people, according to its data. The national rate has generally risen over five years, although the 2013 rate was a touch below the 10.7 deaths per 100,000 recorded in 2012.
A separate measure of shootings, the crowdsourced Mass Shooting Tracker, lists the Umpqua shooting as the 295th mass shooting in the U.S. this year. It defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot—but not necessarily dead—in one event.
That is an average of more than one a day.
Following Alaska are in firearm mortality rates are Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Wyoming, all with 17 or more deaths by firearms per 100,000 people.
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