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    9 months ago

    Conservatives love to quote the statistic that many blue counties have a higher total number of gun deaths than red counties. What they hope you don’t notice is that those blue counties are also the most populous. If you normalize the statistics per capita, those blue counties become far and away the safest areas of the country. The deep south has the highest rate of gun violence per capita.

    Edit: Capita, not capital (my keyboard keeps changing it)