[refurb]

Is it really that hard to figure out for some issues? Take gun control.

Violent gun crimes are nearly non-existent in rural settings. Plus, gun plays an important role for rural folks including: hunting, pest control on farms, self-defense when the police are 30 minutes away, etc.

Is it that surprising that rural folks say "Hey, that sucks you have a lot of gun crime, but why do I have to give something up that has value to me?"

[thrownaway2424]

"Violent gun crimes are nearly non-existent in rural settings."

This cannot be the basis of a rational policy, because it's false. Gun violence is much higher outside of cities. Please go to this site and set the stats to "Intent of injury: Violence-related" and "Mechanism of Injury: Firearm".

https://wisqars.cdc.gov:8443/cdcMapFramework/mapModuleInterf...

[refurb]

How do I see the rural/urban split? It only has data at the state level.

[thrownaway2424]

On the top right side you can switch it to county-level data.

I wish this site had a reasonable way to make permalinks, then I would just paste it here.