Concealed Carry States vs Most Free Countries.

Just something that blows my mind. Here are the states that allow “concealed carry” without a permit or any kind of training, along with the number of people who are killed with guns per 100,00 citizens:

State	Death per 100K
Alaska	24.5
Alabama	22.9
Montana	22.5
Missouri	21.5
Mississippi	21.5
Arkansas	20.3
Wyoming	18.8
West Virginia	18.64
Tennessee	18.4
Oklahoma	17.2
Idaho	16.4
Kentucky	16.2
Kansas	16
Arizona	15.8
Utah	14
Texas	12.4
South Dakota	11.9
Vermont	11.7
Maine	11.7
New Hampshire	10.4
Iowa	9

And here are all the countries that are, according to the Cato Institutes annual Human Freedom Index structurally “as free or more free than the United States,” along with their gun deaths per 100,000 citizens.

State	Death per 100K
Finland	3.25
Switzerland	3.01
Estonia	2.67
Canada	2.05
Norway	1.75
Sweden	1.6
Denmark	1.47
Luxembourg	1.19
New Zealand	1.07
Australia	1.04
Germany	0.99
Ireland	0.8
Netherlands	0.58
United Kingdom	0.23
Iceland	0.07
Japan	0.06