There is a very important trend going on in the United States and I only very rarely hear anyone talking about it. If you live in a Republican controlled state you are much, much, more likely to be murdered. Here are the top 10 states with the most gun deaths:
1. Mississippi – 28.6 per 100k
2. Louisiana – 26.3 per 100k
3. Wyoming – 25.9 per 100k
4. Missouri – 23.9 per 100k
5. Alabama – 23.6 per 100k
6. Alaska – 23.5 per 100k
7. New Mexico – 22.7 per 100k
8. Arkansas – 22.6 per 100k
9. South Carolina – 22 per 100k
10. Tennessee – 21.3 per 100k
What do you notice about this? Of the top 10 gun death states, with the exception of New Mexico, they are all Red states. And now Texas has become a state where a significant percentage of the population are going around armed. Read this article and ask yourself, how would I feel having dinner with my wife and children in a restaurant in some town in Texas and notice that half the people in the room with me and my family are armed, and there is an argument going on at the next table that is getting kind of heated. Would you be comfortable? Or as someone goes by with a Glock on their hip, and your 10 year old daughter turns to you or your wife and asks, “Mommy did you see that man has a gun.” What would you say to her in response?
Hector Rosales, 59, poses for a portrait at his home Aug. 2 in New Braunfels. Credit: Matt McClain / The Washington Post
NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS — To live in Texas is to live surrounded by guns.
Each morning, men here strap guns inside suits, boots and swim trunks. Women slip them into bra and bellyband holsters that render them invisible. They stash firearms in purses, tool boxes, portable gun safes, back seats and glove compartments.
Neighbors tuck guns into bedside tables, cars and trucks. They take guns fishing, to church, the park, the pool, the gym, the movies — even to protests at the state Capitol. The convention center hosts gun shows where shoppers peruse AR-15s and high-capacity magazines outlawed in other states. Texas billboards offer an endless stream of advertisements for ammunition, silencers and other accessories.
It has been legal here to openly carry long guns like rifles for generations. But Texas’s gun-friendly attitude isn’t just a relic of the Old West and ranching: Many restrictions on handguns were loosened only recently. Two years […]
Terri Quint
on Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 8:53 am
Did anyone notice that not a THING was said about guns and murder by guns in the GOP debate last night?
Terri Quint
on Friday, September 29, 2023 at 9:33 am
Why Jacksonville, Florida, isn’t on the list, I don’t know. Every single day in the paper, there is a shooting and several people are killed. In the last two days, one was 3 years old and today’s child was 6 years old!!!
Did anyone notice that not a THING was said about guns and murder by guns in the GOP debate last night?
Why Jacksonville, Florida, isn’t on the list, I don’t know. Every single day in the paper, there is a shooting and several people are killed. In the last two days, one was 3 years old and today’s child was 6 years old!!!
It’s the GUNS, stupid!!!!