On 6/16/2022 1:06 PM, George Antphony wrote:
On Thursday, June 16, 2022 at 10:59:10 AM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:
"The rate of murders in the US has gone up at an alarming rate. But,
despite a media narrative to the contrary, this is a problem that
afflicts Republican-run cities and states as much or more than the
Democratic bastions.
In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40% higher in states won by Donald
Trump than those won by Joe Biden.
8 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in 2020 voted for the
Republican presidential nominee in every election this century."
https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-red-state-murder-problem
TB
At least the red states are killing their own, bet thy also have the highest suicide rate as well.
I'm throwing some snippets out like confetti.
"The indisputable fact is that where there are more guns, there are more
gun deaths.
This is true despite Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's attempt to explain away
gun deaths at the elementary school in his state this week by comparing
them to gun violence in Chicago.
"I hate to say this, but there are more people who were shot every
weekend in Chicago than there are in schools in Texas," Abbott said on Wednesday, arguing stricter gun laws are not a solution.
There are indeed a horrific number of gun deaths in Chicago each year.
CNN has covered the problem.
But there are more gun deaths in Texas, by far, than in any other state, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Texas suffered 4,164 gun deaths in 2020, the most recent year for which
the CDC has published data.
That's a rate of 14.2 deaths per 100,000 Texans.
California, by comparison, saw 3,449 deaths, a gun death rate of 8.5.
Texas does not have the highest gun death rate, however. Far from it.
The top states by gun death rates are:
Mississippi -- 28.6.
Louisiana -- 26.3.
Wyoming -- 25.9.
Missouri -- 23.9.
Alabama -- 23.6.
Alaska -- 23.5."
"
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/gun-violence-data-what-matters/index.html"
"But most gun deaths do not involve a mass shooting. Most gun deaths are suicides. In 2020, 54% of gun deaths in the US were suicides, which are
far less likely to get sustained public attention, according to a Pew
Research Center analysis of CDC data.
CNN wrote in 2019 about the rising suicide rate and a study published in
the journal JAMA Network Open that found higher suicide rates in rural
areas -- and, in cities, if there was a gun shop in the neighborhood."
TB
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