The Best of Our Gun Debate: The State-by-State Breakdown

<p>After the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, sparked a national debate over gun control, we wanted our readers to weigh in. <a href="/content/dailybeast/articles/2012/12/17/interactive-sound-off-on-gun-control.html">Why do you own a gun? Why don’t you?</a> We got almost 1,300 responses in three days—769 from gun owners and 524 from non-gun owners.</p> <p>Readers from all 50 states wrote in. Here are their responses, organized by state. Click any state to sort the responses.<br> <br> Plus, for our analysis of the most common words and phrases used in the responses, <a href="/content/dailybeast/articles/2012/12/22/the-best-of-our-gun-debate-readers-weigh-in-on-owning-firearms.html">click here</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p><i>by Michael Keller</i>&nbsp;</p>