The map in your story clearly shows that your conclusions are overly broad and thus inaccurate and misleading. Take Vermont and Maryland. From your map Vermont is in the top quartile for gun ownership and is in the lowest ranking for domestic gun homicide rates and Maryland is in the bottom quartile for gun ownership and is in the next to highest ranking for domestic gun homicide rates. That is direct conflict with your conclusions. Your analysis must be missing some very important factor that it driving domestic gun homicide rates. One must imagine how high gun low homicide states Vermont, Maine, Wisconsin, Utah, and North Dakota are different from low gun high homicide states Maryland, Virginia, Michigan, Indiana, Arizona, Nevada, Florida and New Mexico are different.

There would seem to be a valuable insight to be discovered if your reporting was not tainted by your confirmation bias.

A much more nuanced explanation is required and the clues are staring you in the face.

TEK