re: How safe would America be without NOLA, St. Louis, Baltimore, Atlanta and Chicago?

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Red States

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states......

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However the CDC says that by far the greatest firearm mortality is in red states.

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There's another one of you?

First, I'd question why you're focused only on firearm mortality. Here's some useful data...

States with the highest homicide rates:

Mississippi:
Homicide Rate - 20.5
Poverty Rate - 19.78%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - F

Louisiana:
Homicide Rate - 19.9
Poverty Rate - 18.88%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - F

Alabama:
Homicide Rate - 14.2
Poverty Rate - 16.08%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - F

Missouri:
Homicide Rate - 14
Poverty Rate - 13.10%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - F

Arkansas:
Homicide Rate - 13
Poverty Rate - 16.31%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - F

South Carolina:
Homicide Rate - 12.7
Poverty Rate - 13.88%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - F

Tennessee:
Homicide Rate - 11.5
Poverty Rate - 14.24%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - F

Maryland:
Homicide Rate - 11.4
Poverty Rate - 8.89%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - A-

Illinois:
Homicide Rate - 11.2
Poverty Rate - 12.44%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - A-

New Mexico:
Homicide Rate - 10.8
Poverty Rate - 18.59%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - C


Now for the states with the lowest homicide rates:

New Hampshire:
Homicide Rate - 0
Poverty Rate - 7.16%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - F

Vermont:
Homicide Rate - 0
Poverty Rate - 10.54%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - C-

Maine:
Homicide Rate - 1.6
Poverty Rate - 11.26%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - F

Idaho:
Homicide Rate - 2.5
Poverty Rate - 11.67%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - F

Massachusetts:
Homicide Rate - 2.7
Poverty Rate - 9.84%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - A-

Utah:
Homicide Rate - 2.9
Poverty Rate - 8.88%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - F

Rhode Island:
Homicide Rate - 3
Poverty Rate - 11.84%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - B

Hawaii:
Homicide Rate - 3.3
Poverty Rate - 9.32%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - A-

Iowa:
Homicide Rate - 3.6
Poverty Rate - 10.97%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - F

Minnesota:
Homicide Rate - 3.6
Poverty Rate - 9.17%
Gifford's Gun Control Score - C+

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However the CDC says that by far the greatest firearm mortality is in red states.

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The same CDC that said covid wasn't contagious?

Corpus Christi??

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First, I'd question why you're focused only on firearm mortality.

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Again, per the CDC:

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saw a chart showing that America is one of the safest countries in the world without these cities and I can't find the chart. Anyone have that handy?

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There was one on race. Basically if you exclude blacks, America (per capita) would be safer than most European and Asian countries (except for maybe a handful of countries like Finland, Japan, and Singapore). There's also one that basically has the same outcome with education as well.

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How safe would America be if slavery hadn’t happened & blacks had not been mired in a cycle of generational poverty ?

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this safe?

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America’s 10 most dangerous cities for families In our analysis of over 430 cities, these 10 cities had the highest rates for violent crime, property crime, and sex offenders. 1 St Louis 2 Memphis 3 Richmond 4 Kalamazoo 5 Salt Lake City 6 Detroit Michigan 7 Chattanooga 8 Little Rock 9 Cleveland 10 Kansas City

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It’s a rare list that you see where you hope for lots of violent and property crime

Let me think of what differences I could think of ?

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It’s a rare list that you see where you hope for lots of violent and property crime

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Who's hoping?

The data are the data.