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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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