I’m currently in the process of researching gun laws by state. My goal is to classify each state into one of four or five categories. Some criteria I’ll be using for grouping are open carry laws and concealed carried laws including if you need a permit and at what age you can get a permit. The goal is to separate the states in a way that doesn’t leave one of the categories with only one or two entries.
Switching to a different topic, I noticed when looking at my mapping of each shooting that the East Coast and West Coast had different race distributions. On the East Coast, there was a large quantity of black people being killed while the West Coast had Hispanics as its majority. The West Coast also had more concentrated clusters of shootings, but that’s likely due to large amounts of land being undeveloped such as deserts and mountains or plains and farmlands.
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