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Sources:
https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/alabama/2022/downloads (first state)
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/VOQCHQ

The Heritage foundation article (see esp. Table 1 and footnote 25): https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/the-blue-city-murder-problem

Relevant previous Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/blwlig/the_cretaceous_period_145_to_66_million_years_ago/

the heritage foundation misrepresenting data in bad faith to convey a reactionary message? I'm shocked! /s

This kind of shocked? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-PS_pr-t0

yes exactly what I was thinking of.

Chicago's homicides is half of the GOPs argument for it's lack of gun control.

This is typical of the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute. I was linked to a Cato paper which claimed the productivity/wage gap doesn’t exist. It claimed the additional value of non wage compensation completely removed the discrepancy. After a few paragraphs of variables and equations, buried in a footnote at the bottom read: “There is no number reference for this value.” Basically they gave a detailed report about how making up a missing number balanced the equation.

Yikes! I didn’t realize it was a frequent occurrence

The GOPs bad faith argument...

They point to Chicago's strict gun laws, while omitting neighboring Indiana has lax gun ownership laws and people are free to travel between the two.

I am continuously amused by the fact that Chicago/New York/name_a_city is not the county with the highest homicide rate, just a place with a high number of absolute homicides. The actual culprits are rural counties in the deep south.

I applaud what was surely many hours painstaking looking for truth in the face of lazy lies.

Nothing valid has ever been published by the Heritage Foundation. They have more similarities with ISIS or the Taliban then the truth.

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It's not exactly surprising given the demographic of that area and the murder statistics.

Thanks for the feedback. Luckily I'm a nut about collecting demographics and frequently testing out different ideas as conversations come up, so I had already done most of the work before the article. I had even already included their data source in my data.

👆and Indiana is only like 20 min. from the south side of Chicago.

A Republican will lie that black is white just to get votes from dead people.

It’s all the gangs in Deep South rural towns. /s

Now let's see trump vs Biden states pls.

Ok looking at the data map what the heck is up with Alaska damn.

The population for that county is less than 6K people, so they may have had just 1 homicide.

Now what about everything around the Mississippi river?

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Will that fit your narative better? County view is much more informative. You basically admit your inherent bias and sound silly

Because counties have essentially no influence over concealed carry licenses.or how easy it is to buy a gun. They also have very little influence over public policy in general.

What you'll see at the state level is that states that enact nra backed policies consistently have not only higher rates of murder with a gun per Capita but also higher murder and suicide rates as a result. Also states that enact things like constitutional carry consistently see a spike in murder rates and gun violence.

This makes Biden districts look more violent but it would be more accurate to say that being poor in a red state is a better indicator.

I think what this view shows is who is driving up the homicide rate in each state. I would say Biden districts are more violent based on this. Trump states are more violent but that is misleading, because it is the Biden districts within driving those numbers. Make sense?

That's 100% what the heritage foundation has engineered here but that's not what it actually shows. If you looks at places that vote heavily for Biden but have sensible gun laws like NY, Cali, Mass, Connecticut, etc you'll see that Biden districts are actually less violent than Trump districts in spite of other factors like poverty.

Combo of NRA gun laws and extreme poverty.

Do you see all that light brown/ tan on the map? Those are Trump counties in Trump states with low violence and loose gun laws.

I think you're just a bit thick mate. Maybe go donate some money to the heritage foundation.

I don’t think you know what you’re talking about ‘mate’.

IF you didn't know, there are actually more gangs in the deep south than in the north.

And very isolated communities. Who is going to catch you there?

But it's illegal and impossible to purchase a handgun across state lines, so that's entirely pointless to bring up.

Certain regions within the city are more dangerous for a young black man than if he were serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. Areas like Auburn Gresham, Austin, Garfield Park, etc. are literally warzones with 10x the per capita homicide rate of the city as a whole. It's pretty hand wavy to point at rural counties where the homicide rate can swing a lot by having one more or fewer murder per year when these areas with a similar population to the rural county are dropping 40+ bodies a year in a few block radius.

"Illegal and impossible" glad you believe that every gun purchaser is an upstanding legal citizen and responsible gun owner.

By the way, if you have more of what you're smoking I could use some this weekend when I visit my conservative Trump-supporting in-laws. Thanks!

>every gun purchaser is an upstanding legal citizen

Yes they have to pass a background check. Responsible - not since people stopped being charged for violating straw purchase laws, the ATF is busy with important things like whether a rifle has a 15.9" or a 16" barrel and shooting women holding babies than stopping crimes with victims.

If you add suicide by gun then things get much worse for Trump’s country.

Serious question, are there statistics on gang numbers by city? Seems like a tough thing to put a number on.

Big number = bad. You expect MAGA heads to understand per capita?

This is nee or news. Per capita cities and suburbs have the least crime.

Lol, I think you're the one that has trouble understanding things.

Then why aren't the guns causing mayhem in Indiana? I'm always surprised when the anti-civil rights people use Indiana as a scapegoat for the issues in Chicago when in reality, it totally disproves their points- gun control laws don't control behavior and the guns aren't crux of the problem, otherwise cities in Indiana would have similar issues to Chicago. The people pushing 20th century failed 'gun control' theory often play with the aggregation level- state or sometimes city, when the problem is far more focused. Dilution is the solution when it comes to hiding violent crime. Bruen is bringing an end to the failed 'gun control' laws and will force our society to face the real causes and solutions to violence.

Hawaii also has very strict gun laws.

But being an island in the middle of the ocean, there's no next-door neighbor that allows guns to filter in.

Step off with your MuH cIvIl RiGhTs. No other G7 nation has the insane levels of gun violence the US has.

Thanks for the response, but you kind of prove my point. There is no South-side or Chicago in Hawaii, that is why there is, um, no murder rates like in the south side. Winetka is exposed to the same 'filtering' of firearms and doesn't have the murder rate. I doubt the drive up I-94 is the real issue...

So across Illinois you hold the gun laws constant but you get vastly different murder rates. So gun laws aren't the driver of murder rates.

As to the rights issue, the right recognized by the 2A is THE RIGHT that all others depend on. You might not like that or recognize it, but it it true. The 1A is the right to think and say what you want, and the 2A is "no seriously, I get to say and think what I want."

Just outright gonna ignore that the US has a gun violence rate far, far higher than any other sensible G7 nation, huh. Ok fine, you and your ilk are the ones being unreasonable and not seeing the point.

Thanks again for the engagement, but when are you going to realize that the wishing away of guns isn't going to solve the problem? I admire the persistence that just we are one more gun law away from solving the problem, but how much failure of past laws and the lack of addressing the current issues can you stand before you realize that we are not going to legislate this away by focusing on things? A war on guns is going to be as successful as a war on drugs. If you want to focus on deaths with guns, disarming and restricting law abiding people is counterproductive. You need to go after the mentally unstable and the gang violence- and really you need to go after the issues around our lack of respect for life. Unfortunately, you can't legislate those.