Nick Wilson, who works as the senior director of gun violence prevention for the Center for American Progress (CAP), told me, “Even for me, it was very surprising to see just how much Mississippi and other kind of more rural places top the list” of places with the worst gun homicide rates. Wilson was referring to a list CAP put together using data from hospitals and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The left-leaning think tank found that of the 20 U.S. counties with the highest “annualized gun homicide rate” between 2021 and 2024, 11 counties are rural. Mississippi counties account for eight of the top 20 and five of the top 10.
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