Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "OOPS: Republican Senator faceplants on "dangerous urban" gun crime" video.

  1. From the numbers I can find, the murder rate in Chicago is 15/100,000 in 2021, half the rate of the worst states. Chicago's rate is lower than some other cities in Illinois. Champaign's rate in 2021 was 18/100,000. In 2020, the gun homicide rate in Rockford was 17/100,000 and 25/100,000 in Peoria. The murder rate in Chicago doesn't even put it in the top five cities, nationally, But Chicago has a large population, so the total numbers are higher, and every media outlet has an office in Chicago, so it is easy for them to cover the city. The Republicans are trying very hard to make this a "liberal" issue, or a racial issue, but gun violence is more a red state issue than anything else, with cities like Memphis, St Louis and New Orleans having significantly higher murder rates.
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