DumbGuns

% of Households with Loaded Firearm divided by % of People 25 Yrs & Up Who Completed High School

Created by: cwolz

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"DumbGuns"
The ratio of % of households with loaded firearms, divided by the % of people who have completed high school. A higher number is, I think, not a good thing, as it indicates fewer well-educated people and a larger share of the whole population with guns. My premise is that education is critical for a healthy, happy, and prosperous society, and that guns are not -- and in fact they are detrimental to accomplishing these goals.

The obvious criticism of this indicator could be that, in more rural states there may be lower HS matriculation rates, and also a tradition of higher gun ownership rates, each for unconnected reasons. The problem with that point is that it does not hold for rural states such as ND, MN, or IA.

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Rank	Region	% of Households with Loaded Firearm	÷	% of People 25 Yrs & Up Who Completed High School	Result
1	Alabama	13.40	÷	80.00	0.17
2	Arkansas	11.60	÷	80.00	0.15
3	Mississippi	11.10	÷	77.00	0.14
4	Georgia	10.30	÷	81.00	0.13
5	Louisiana	10.00	÷	80.00	0.13
6	Montana	11.10	÷	90.00	0.12
7	Kentucky	9.60	÷	78.00	0.12
8	Tennessee	9.70	÷	81.00	0.12
9	Alaska	10.70	÷	91.00	0.12
10	South Carolina	8.90	÷	81.00	0.11
11	Oklahoma	8.90	÷	83.00	0.11
12	Idaho	9.10	÷	87.00	0.10
13	Wyoming	9.40	÷	91.00	0.10
14	Texas	8.10	÷	79.00	0.10
15	North Carolina	7.70	÷	81.00	0.10
16	New Mexico	7.50	÷	80.00	0.09
17	Indiana	7.80	÷	84.00	0.09
18	Arizona	7.10	÷	84.00	0.08
19	Missouri	7.10	÷	86.00	0.08
20	West Virginia	6.40	÷	79.00	0.08
21	Florida	6.50	÷	85.00	0.08
22	Virginia	6.30	÷	85.00	0.07
23	Nevada	5.90	÷	83.00	0.07
24	Oregon	6.10	÷	87.00	0.07
25	Kansas	5.50	÷	89.00	0.06
26	Washington	5.00	÷	89.00	0.06
27	Delaware	4.60	÷	86.00	0.05
28	Utah	4.30	÷	89.00	0.05
29	Pennsylvania	4.00	÷	86.00	0.05
30	Colorado	4.00	÷	87.00	0.05
31	Michigan	4.00	÷	87.00	0.05
32	South Dakota	3.80	÷	89.00	0.04
33	Maryland	3.60	÷	87.00	0.04
34	Vermont	3.20	÷	89.00	0.04
35	Nebraska	3.20	÷	89.00	0.04
36	Ohio	2.90	÷	87.00	0.03
37	Wisconsin	2.80	÷	87.00	0.03
38	New Hampshire	2.80	÷	88.00	0.03
39	Minnesota	2.70	÷	91.00	0.03
40	North Dakota	2.40	÷	88.00	0.03
41	Illinois	2.20	÷	85.00	0.03
42	Iowa	2.10	÷	90.00	0.02
43	District of Columbia	1.90	÷	84.00	0.02
44	Rhode Island	1.80	÷	83.00	0.02
45	New York	1.80	÷	84.00	0.02
46	Maine	1.80	÷	88.00	0.02
47	Connecticut	1.80	÷	89.00	0.02
48	New Jersey	1.20	÷	86.00	0.01
49	Hawaii	1.20	÷	87.00	0.01
50	Massachusetts	1.00	÷	88.00	0.01