[dragonwriter]

> Interesting that those low-restriction states have such low violent crime.

Not all that surprising. The low restriction states also tend to be low-urban-population proportion; many types of crime increasing in urban environments is a long observed thing across pretty much all human societies, for which density, relative anonymity, and Stark and omnipresent socioeconomic contrasts have all been suggested as contributing factors.

> In fact, those US counties with zero murders (about half) have the most lax gun control laws.

Well, sure, they also mostly have populations below (often by an order of magnitude or more) the level at which the expected number of murders at the national rate would be 1.