Vox Accidentally Proves Blue States Experience More Mass Murders Than Red States

Well, this is inconvenient.

It’s always amusing when left-wing rags and reporters take it upon themselves to explain the appeal of firearms. Left-wing publications make it seem like it’s totes easy to purchase grenade launchers and reporters are stuck recovering from temporary cases of PTSD after shooting the super scary guns.

It’s like a circus. One that you wouldn’t go back to.

Which brings me to Vox. After the terrorist attack in Orlando, Vox published some data on mass shootings and accidentally proved that blue states with strict gun laws experience more mass shootings than red states.

The Daily Caller News Foundation decided to analyze Vox’s findings, and as it turns out, blue states have 42 percent more mass shootings than red states.

TheDCNF’s analysis found that 543 of the mass shootings listed by Vox occurred in blue states while only 330 occurred in red states. If adjusted to account for differences in the size of population, blue states have .381 mass shootings per 100,000 people, while red states have a mere .267.

 

Places where Democrats controlled the state legislature were even more likely to have mass shootings than the average blue state. This means that a mass shooting, as defined by Vox, is 42 percent more likely to occur in a blue state after accounting for population differences.

 

Gun laws are generally drafted by state legislatures — Democrats control both branches of the state legislature in Maryland, Illinois, Delaware, Rhode Island, and California. Washington, D.C., which had the worst per capita mass shootings, does not have a state legislature, but every member of the current city council is a Democrat and the city has never elected a Republican mayor. This correlation between mass shootings and Democratic control of state legislature is especially striking as Democrats are currently in full control of just 11 state legislatures while the GOP is in full control of 30 state legislatures.

You know what we need? NATIONAL GUN LAWS. That’s the problem. If every state had to abide by these gun laws, there would be no gun violence ever.

That’s the argument they’ll throw at us next. I guarantee it.