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It's a different kind of problem. If someone says one city has a gun death rate of 20 per 100,000 and the other city has a gun death rate of 10 per 100,000, the average listener is going to think that his odds of being murdered if he visits the first city are twice as high as the second, even if the actual gun homicide rate of each city is approximately the same. 
Attempting to lump suicide numbers in with homicide numbers is a clever way to deceive John Q. Public into becoming more fearful for his own safety even if he himself has never owned a gun and is at no risk of committing suicide with a gun.
Ah yes, Chicago.  Every 2nd amendment stalwarts favorite ‘gun laws don’t work’ argument. 
Nearly 60 percent of guns recovered in Chicago come from out-of-state dealers, with more than 20 percent traced back to Indiana. >

The guns must be tired from walking there >

Well, it is quite a hike from Indiana to Chicago, so by the time the guns get to the Windy City they're pretty hangry and ready for a nap... >

Chicago isn't even in the top 20 cities for violence. Per capita gun violence is much higher in red states than blue cities (which are mostly higher population than entire red states). >

Yeah. Because the majority of our country lives in urban centers or the outlying suburbs. The idea that ‘America’ is small town USA is just ridiculous. The vast amount of wealth in the country is made in the blue areas. It’s insane to believe the majority of this country is republican. >

Right-wingers, in their Christian love, are never so happy as when people are killed or maimed by gunfire. >

Look at that, more guns don’t create safer environment after all. Who would have thought >

The article claims that North Carolina has a bigger gun problem than Illinois and uses the metric of "age-adjusted gun death rate". Of course the average reader is going to use that to say that there are more murders by firearm in North Carolina than Illinois, when in fact that is not the case when you look at the total number of firearm homicides in each state and compare that to their populations. North Carolina has a lot more suicides by gun than Illinois does, but doesn't have more homicides.
A classic thing you'll see in articles like this is the conflating of gun DEATH rates and gun HOMICIDE rates. These two metrics measure very different phenomena and should not be used interchangeably unless you are being intentionally deceptive to push an agenda. >

So... a bunch of people killing themselves with guns isn't a problem? 🤔