Yep but it depends a LOT on the makeup of the population. This from your link: "and we’ve noticed a trend: the states with stronger gun regulation have lower gun death rates, and the states with weaker regulation have higher gun death rates."
Vermont gets an F, VERY lacking in restriction. I would have no problem with them instituting background checks for private sales and certainly no problem if they required permits for concealed carry. Can't say that I agree with the concept of allowing local governments to regulate firearms (and I don't even own any), that would be a huge mess town to town. But note that Vermont is 39th in gun death rank compared to Illinois (B+) at 38th. Which means the state with fairly decent gun control laws has more gun deaths (per x thousand people I assume) than a state with an F rating.
I'm sure the lower death rank has more to do with Vermont's lack of huge cities and all the social issues that accompany them. ~625K people, the biggest city is 42K people in a county of 156K people (3 cities and 14 towns). I note that this is a 55% increase from when I moved to Vermont 36 years ago. Only 4 of the remaining 12 counties have more population than the City of Burlington. 61K, 59K, 56K and 47K. In contrast there are nearly 13M people in Illinois (5.2M in Cook county - Chicago). There are lots of small counties as well and I bet the "death rank" in those counties is WAY lower than it is in Cook county.
I think one thing that is clear is that when you shove too many bodies (be they people or chickens) in a given space, bad things happen. Not that they can't happen when the "creatures" are spread out but it is less frequent.
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