link: New York City requires any lawful owner or custodian of a firearm to render his or her weapon inoperable by use of a safety locking device while the weapon is out of his or her immediate possession or control.
strawman: Erm, our discussion was state laws. Remember? That lovely little map you provided? If you want to do municipalities, you'll have to come up with an entirely different data set.
You're kidding? The discussion was of states with lower accidental firearm death rates; NYC is in New York state. New York state accidental firearm fatality rates are influenced largely by stats derived from NYC metro area. The figures/data on the map include of course, the data from NYC itself & metro area.
this you wrote, which applies to over 7 million new Yorkers, over a third of NY population, was undeniably WRONG: The only safe storage requirement in New York applies to a firearm owner sharing residence with a "prohibited person," one with a history of felony convictions or involuntary commitment for mental health: no provision for households with children.
strawman: In any case, the people of New York City may constitute a very large portion of New York State's population, but very few of them are gun owners. Therefore, NYC's safe storage laws are insignificant in a discussion of New York State's firearms accident rates. It's that pesky old demographic thing again.
The relative scarcity of firearms in NYC redounds on the accidental firearm death rate for New York state as a whole; if you measured only counties outside of NYC, I bet accidental firearm death rates would be comparable with a progun state, which would demonstrate the efficacy of gun laws & may issue ccw in new York city.
Violent crime rates in NYC metro area of course will be higher than NY outside NYC, since it's an urbanized area, & cannot be meaningfully compared with rural areas, guns or not.
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