Firearm availability and police shootings of citizens: a city level analysis of fatal and injurious shootings in California and Florida

Table 2 Zero-order correlations

	Y₁	Y₂	X₁	X₂	X₃	X₄	X₅	X₆	X₇
Y₁ citizens shot rate	–
Y₂ shooting incidents rate	0.99**	–
X₁ guns lost or stolen per 1000	0.33**	0.30**	–
X₂ gun stores per 100 k	0.49**	0.35**	0.24**	–
X₃ concentrated disadvantage^a	0.45**	0.53**	0.33**	0.18**	–
X₄ gun homicide rate	0.32**	0.41**	0.27**	0.17**	0.51**	–
X₅ percent Black	0.31**	0.26**	0.28**	0.21**	0.42**	0.45**	–
X₆ percent Hispanic	0.07	0.19**	− 0.05	− 0.25**	0.58**	0.23**	− 0.16*	–
X₇ state (1 = Florida)	0.32**	0.23**	0.25**	0.46**	0.20**	0.12	0.55**	− 0.27**	–

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01 (two-tailed test)
a = Weighted factor score of 3 items: percentage of the population living in poverty, percentage of the population with female-headed households, and the median income (reverse coded)—measured for each city

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