Do More Guns Really Mean More Safety?

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4. How about Hawaii and Alaska?

Hawaii has fairly strict gun control laws while Alaska's are relatively lax, but Alaska has a much higher gun crime rate.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/13/24-7-wall-st-states-most-gun-violence/71003050/

In fact, none of the states with the most gun violence require permits to purchase rifles, shotguns, or handguns. Gun owners are also not required to register their weapons in any of these states. Meanwhile, many of the states with the least gun violence require a permit or other form of identification to buy a gun.

If gun control doesn't make a difference then rates of of gun violence should be evenly distributed between states relative to population. That isn't the case as the above article indicates.

Why is that?