Gun Violence Rates In Rural Areas Match or Outpace Cities

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just to damn many guns in the USA!!

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Sep 28, 2022
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Gun Violence Rates In Rural Areas Match or Outpace Cities


https://www.ncja.org/crimeandjusticenews/gun-violence-rates-in-rural-areas-match-or-outpace-cities


As gun violence continues to fuel violent crime, some conservative politicians are not only refusing to support violence prevention measures but are also rolling back gun laws. Many of these same officials express the narrative that gun violence is only a problem in urban, Democrat-led cities, and media outlets focus on gun violence in cities like Chicago.

The truth is that rural communities—particularly in red states—have increasingly faced levels of gun violence that match or outpace urban areas, says the Center for American Progress.
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From 2016 to 2020, the two U.S. counties to experience the most gun homicides per capita were rural, Phillips County, Ar., with 55.45 age-adjusted homicides per 100,000 people, and Lowndes County, Al., with 48.36 age-adjusted homicides per 100,000.

During the same years, 13 of the 20 U.S. counties with the most gun homicides per capita were rural. .............................................

Overall, the total gun death rate for rural communities—when age-adjusted per 100,000 people—was 40 percent higher than it was for large metropolitan areas in 2020.................................

[Lovie777]

1. True..............

but Americans hear about gun violent mainly in urban areas by design from the corporate media. The information above is buried while GQP screams bloody murder.

[Ocelot II]

2. In GOP-Speak, "urban" means Black and Brown people.

GOPers' belief that cities are crime-ridden hellholes derives from their belief that POC are innately criminal, and that the bleeding-heart liberals who govern cities are too woke to punish criminals properly.

[appalachiablue]

3. +1

[Skittles]

4. however will they blame this on black folk

[machoneman]

5. Fewer R voters in red states. Sweet!