Mississippi has the highest rate of gun deaths of any U.S. state, according to a new report.With a gun death rate per capita at 18.23 deaths per 100,000 people, Mississippi has the highest number of deaths from firearms relative to the population, followed by Louisiana, Alabama, New Mexico, and Missouri.
The ten states with the lowest rate of gun deaths per population were: Vermont at 2.01 per 100,000, Iowa at 1.75, Wyoming at 1.72, Massachusetts at 1.50, Utah at 1.42, Idaho at 1.34, New Hampshire at 1.29, Rhode Island at 1.28, Hawaii at 1.04, and finally, Maine at 0.94 gun deaths per 100,000 people.
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