I don't want to talk about Aldean's "Small town" lyrics or video.
I do want to point out (again) that the homicide rate in GOP "small town" counties, is higher than that in Dem "big town" counties. 🤡
A white person in a red county has about as much chance of being shot as a Black person in a blue county.🤡
(I don't know how much you know about crime in the USA, but if you have as much risk of being a victim of anything as Black people? That's not good).
The secret to not being shot in the United States is:
* Be white
* Be in a big blue city
I think it's hilarious how white folk from small towns think of New York as a dangerous place.
If you visit NYC from rural America, your chances of being shot just went *down* significantly.
If you look at victim stats, in general you see that:
* Black people shoot Black people.
* White people shoot white people.
* White people in blue counties don't point guns at each other very often.
* White people in red counties point guns at each other way too often.
I had the impression that
* White people shoot themselves (generally)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9709653/
(Includes some fun maps supporting your point about NYC.)
How have firearm fatality rates varied over a 32-year period in the United States?In this cross-sectional study of 1 110 421 firearm fatalities, all-intent firearm fatality rates declined to a low in 2004, then increased 45.5% by 2021. ...
btw, another article, which feels sort of compassionate to me, and illustrates the point that racism is hurting more than its target:
Final paragraph is good, quoted next if I can squeeze it into 500 chars.
mekka okereke 
John Lusk