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   From: MeanDog25@Menace.Dash   
      
   Brock McNuggets wrote:   
      
   >On Nov 29, 2025 at 11:57:44 AM MST, "Gerry Duggan" wrote   
   ><10gffn8$3ko7u$1@dont-email.me>:   
   >   
   >> Red States Have Higher Gun Death Rates Than Blue States. Here's Why   
   >>   
   >> A new study published in Journal of the American Medical Association's   
   >> Surgery found that firearm deaths are more likely in small rural towns   
   >> than in major urban cities, adding to research that contradicts common   
   >> belief that Democratic blue areas have higher incidences of gun-related   
   >> deaths than do Republican red districts.   
   >   
   >Not surprising. But it does not fit into the right wing bigoted attack on   
   >blacks, so they will deny it.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
   Speaking of criminals.   
      
   Even the Republican President is a convicted felon 34 times AND an aducated   
   rapist.   
      
   Red States are far more violent than blue states.   
      
      
      
   Republicans are violent murderers.   The NG needs shoot to kill orders to   
   restore law and order in the red states.   
      
      
      
       The red state murder rate was 33% higher than the blue state murder   
       rate in both 2021 and 2022. 2022 was the 23rd consecutive year that   
       murder plagued Trump-voting states at far higher levels than   
       Biden-voting states. 8 out of the 10 states with the highest murder   
       rates in 2022 voted for Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020. From 2000   
       to 2022, the average red state murder rate was 24% higher than the   
       average blue state murder rate. Red states like Mississippi,   
       Louisiana, and Alabama are America’s murder capitals and have had the   
       highest three murder rates for 15 of the last 23 years. The excuse   
       that sky high red state murder rates are because of their blue cities   
       is without merit. Even after removing the county with the largest city   
       from red states, and not from blue states, red state murder rates were   
       still 20% higher in 2021 and 16% higher in 2022.   
      
   House Republicans held three field hearings on violent crime last year in   
   New York City, Chicago, and Washington DC. These hearings should have been   
   held in the murder-plagued states of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama.   
   In 2023, Speaker Johnson’s hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana had a murder   
   rate 8 times higher (41.1) than Minority Leader Jeffries’ hometown of   
   Brooklyn, New York (5.0), 6 times higher than Nancy Pelosi’s San   
   Francisco, California (6.6), and more than 7 times higher than the   
   national average (5.5). Our 2023 report in the Red State Murder Problem   
   series found that murder rates were significantly higher in red states   
   than blue states every year from 2000 to 2020. Over these 21 years, the   
   red state murder rate was 23% higher than the blue state murder rate. Our   
   analysis of the latest CDC data found that 2021 and 2022 were no   
   exception.   
      
   This report analyzes homicide data from 2021 and 2022 for all 50 states   
   from the Center of Disease Control Wonder’s National Center for Health   
   Statistics Mortality Data. Data is based on death certificates collected   
   by state registries and provided to the National Vital Statistics System.   
   Like in our previous report, we chose CDC data over FBI data because it’s   
   more up to date and does not rely on voluntary reporting from counties and   
   states. All states are required to report mortality data to the CDC while   
   they’re only encouraged to report crime data to the FBI. To allow for   
   comparison across states, we calculated the state’s per capita murder   
   rate, the number of murders per 100,000 residents, and categorized states   
   by their presidential vote in the 2020 election, resulting in an even   
   25-25 state split.   
      
   We found that murder rates were down 5% nationwide in 2022, but a red   
   state murder gap still persists. Murder rates in red states were 33%   
   higher than in blue states in both 2021 and 2022. As in 2019 and 2020,   
   Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama hold the first, second, and third   
   highest murder rates in the country, respectively. The rest of the 10   
   states with the highest murder rates include the usual suspects—South   
   Carolina, Missouri, Tennessee, New Mexico, and Georgia. States with the   
   highest murder rates continue to be dominated by red states, not perennial   
   blue states like New York and California. Even when we removed the county   
   with the largest city in red states (and kept them in for blue states),   
   murder rates in red states were still 20% higher in 2021 and 16% higher in   
   2022. This is not a blue cities in red states problem.   
      
   Our analysis confirms that murder rates have been higher in red states   
   than blue states every year this century. Yet, the prevalent media and   
   political narrative is that crime is rampant in Democrat-run states and   
   cities when the reality is that people are far safer in New York City than   
   in over a dozen red states. The murder crisis continues to be far higher   
   in red states in 2021 and 2022.   
      
   Murder rates in red states were 33% higher than in blue states in both   
   2021 and 2022. In 2021, the average red state murder rate was 9.0 per   
   100,000 residents while the average blue state murder rate was 6.8 per   
   100,000. In 2022, both these numbers dropped slightly to 8.5 per 100,000   
   residents and 6.4 per 100,000 residents, respectively. If blue states had   
   a murder rate as high as red states, they would have seen 4,255 additional   
   murders in 2021 and 3,971 additional murders in 2022.   
      
   While murder rates thankfully dropped in both red and blue states in 2022,   
   red states still see a murder rate significantly higher than blue states   
   have ever seen. Over the past 23 years, the murder rate in blue states hit   
   its peak in 2021 at 6.8, significantly lower than red states’ peak at 9.0   
   the same year. Red states haven’t seen a murder rate under 6.8 since 2015,   
   when the murder rate was 6.4. Red states clearly have a murder problem   
   that defies the easy media narrative prevalent today. Mississippi,   
   Louisiana, and Alabama continue to dominate the top three spots.   
      
   Since 2016, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have had the three highest   
   murder rates in the country. This trend actually goes back to 2008, with   
   just one year, 2015, where Maryland replaced Alabama in the top three.   
   These three red states have consistently had the highest murder rates for   
   over 15 years now. You would never know it based on the media.   
      
   For example, Republicans and the media constantly talk about rampant crime   
   in California and New York, but those two states’ murder rates don’t even   
   crack the top 25. In 2021, California had the 26th highest murder rate and   
   New York had the 33rd highest rate. In 2022, California had the 30th and   
   New York had the 35th highest murder rates. Mississippi and Louisiana’s   
      
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