Originally posted on 10/18/2018:
Nope. States with middling gun murder rates are New Jersey, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Ohio, at just under 3 per 100k population:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_vi...tates_by_state
That's still 5x higher than Canada, 20x higher than Europe, and about 50x higher than the UK, which has very few private firearms.