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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rural areas don't want your problem people.  Rural areas do not have the supports to deal with your reject people.[/quote]

Rural areas do not have the supports to deal with their own problems.[/quote]

Even the poorest rural area is less violent than the poorer urban one.[/quote]

This is not actually true: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/gun-violence-in-rural-america/

[code]From 2016 to 2020, the two U.S. counties to experience the most gun homicides per capita were rural:* (see Figure 1)
Phillips County, Arkansas: 55.45 age-adjusted homicides per 100,000 people
Lowndes County, Alabama: 48.36 age-adjusted homicides per 100,000 people**
From 2016 to 2020, 13 of the 20 U.S. counties with the most gun homicides per capita were rural: (see Figure 1)
80 percent of these 20 counties are in states that received an “F” grade for their weak gun laws, according to Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s 2021 annual state scorecard rankings.
In 2020, the total gun death rate for rural communities—when age-adjusted per 100,000 people—was 40 percent higher than it was for large metropolitan areas.[/code][/quote]

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