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   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.   
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   Researchers from Children's Hospital Philadelphia, Columbia University   
   Mailman School of Public Health and the University of California examined   
   two decades of mortality rates and cause-of-death data from the National   
   Center for Health Statistics' National Vital Statistics System to compile   
   the study.   
      
   A Third Way report found that between 2000 and 2020, Trump-voting states   
   had 12% higher murder rates than did Biden-voting cities.   
      
   Data shows that in 2020, eight of the ten states with the highest murder   
   rates voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election in   
   this century.   
      
   In the past, Republicans have made crime a major campaign talking point—in   
   October 2022, one quarter of attack ads on Democrats focused on crime, and   
   in the two months leading up to the midterms, Fox aired about 141 crime   
   segments on weekdays, according to the report.   
      
   A report published in the New England Journal of Medicine found guns became   
   the leading cause of death for children starting in 2017—motor vehicle-   
   related deaths held the number one spot for 60 years prior.   
      
   The JAMA Surgery study also found that gun suicides are more common than   
   gun homicides, with gun suicides accounting for a large increase in gun   
   deaths in recent years.   
      
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