Column skewed evidence

In a Sept. 4 commentary, Chelsea Kane, chairwoman of the IU College Republicans, writes, “The top four of five states for gun ownership (in which Indiana is second) are also in the top five states with the lowest rates of gun violence.”

Ms. Kane’s syntax is confusing, but by any interpretation her figures are simply wrong. A 2007 study conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health found conclusively that “homicide rates among children, and among women and men of all ages, are higher in states where more households have guns.” A 1 percent increase in the rate of gun ownership was found, on the average, to be associated with a 3.3 percent increase in firearm homicides. States in the top quartile of the gun ownership rankings had firearm homicide rates more than twice as high as states in the bottom quartile. This study ranked Indiana 27th in gun ownership, which is pretty far from second.
I’d be curious to know where Ms. Kane got her statistics.