Funny as in ironic that the Democratic Party likes to hold itself up as the party of Diversity, but most blue states are not very diverse at all. They don't have high levels of gun violence because they are full of affluent white people. It has little or nothing to do with whether the occupants voted for Biden or Trump. Comparisons at the State level are also irrelevant, and these types of articles that play the red state blue state rivalry are stupidly, deliberately divisive. States are not homogenous. Data that compares one state to another is rarely meaningful.
If you take a look at the county/city level you will see a VERY different result. Homicides mostly occur in densely populated urban areas.
I will agree that gun ownership rates can play a part, but again, the data points jump all over the place and are not consistent enough to be statistically significant. There are places with high gun ownership where crime rates are very low, and places where gun ownership is very low and crime rates are very high.
It is a much more relevant fact that gun violence disproportionately impacts communities of color, and homicide rates closely correlate with poverty and Black populations, at the community, county, city and state levels. That is a very real and urgent problem but the article completely ignores that correlation. The fact that the authors completely omit that shows they don't really care about murders in the Black community or the root causes of gun violence. Their intent is to make this a wedge issue to divide the states.
Like I said, this is a repeat thread. The author of the root article is a recent college graduate with a degree in something irrelevant, I can't remember what. My recollection is that both she and the other author have been employed as political operatives for Democratic candidates. The publisher of the article is a political think tank with a mandate to get Democrats elected. There is nothing objective about this article whatsoever, it is paid political messaging pretending to be journalism.
Maybe if I feel like it I will search out my posts on the old thread, which was a bit more comprehensive.
