Glen Contrarian
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You forgot Baltimore , Detroit , Cincinnati , Birmingham Alabama , Oakland California , St Louis , Tennessee , Little Rock Arkansas , .................etc. :lamo
Wrong answer. Why? Because if those cities are SO bad, if that's where most of the problem really was, then Maryland and Illinois and Michigan (where Baltimore, Chicago, and Detroit are, respectively) would be right at the very top of the list of states by homicide rates.
But they're not. The top four are Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and South Carolina. Maryland is fifth, followed by (in order):
Nevada
Delaware
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Out of the worst eleven states for homicides, only two are blue states (in 5th and 8th place)...all the rest are RED states...and all but one of those are in the mostly-rural (and VERY gun-friendly) Deep South.
So don't give me this claptrap that it's all because of the cities...because if the problem was the cities, then the highest homicide rates would be found in the states with the biggest cities. Instead, we see how New York (at 3.1/100K) has a homicide rate LESS THAN ONE THIRD that of Louisiana (10.3/100K). Even California (at 4.4/100K) - remember, the home of SF, LA, Oakland, and Compton - is LESS THAN ONE HALF that of Louisiana.
You didn't know any of that, did you? For some reason, Fox News never, ever happens to mention that the deadliest states to live in are almost all RED states, do they? Oh, no, they're SO eager to tell you how violent those oh-so-liberal (and minority-heavy) places are, but they don't want you to see what the actual numbers, the actual hard data say, do they?
And it's crap like this that convinced me to leave the GOP over twenty years ago...because I saw that they were lying through their teeth, and they didn't care that they were lying through their teeth, as long as they won.