Today’s map of the day shows firearm mortality by state for the year of 2015 per 100,000 total population. From the map we can see a cluster of southern states that had rates ranging between 13.51 – 23.50, indicated by the dark brown/brown shading. We can also see some western states such as, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana also had a high rate of firearm mortality. In contrast, some states, such as California, Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, Road Island, Iowa and Montana had a low mortality rate ranging between 3.00 – 7.50, indicated by the yellow shading.