It's the Brian Lera show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. We think of gun violence as

associated with urban areas in politics for sure, but is it true true new data from the gun violence archive a

nonprofit organization that tracks both gun injuries and deaths has recently

been made available for the years from 2014 through

2023 and it paints perhaps the most comprehensive picture of gun

violence in America over the past decade. Now nationwide gun violence has gone up during that

decade but while it's coming down in many bigger cities rural, particularly in the south, are experiencing a

disproportionate amount of gun violence per capita. The data shows that

nearly one out of every two shootings that they analyzed took place outside of large metropolitan areas.

Let's take a closer look, joining us now with his analysis of the new data and to talk about how policy changes have

contributed to this alarming trend especially in certain states.

Chip Brownlee, a reporter at the Trace, a non-profit news site that covers gun violence.

His latest is titled, You're More Likely to be Shot in Selma than in Chicago.

Hey Chip, welcome back to WNYC.

Hey Brian, thanks so much for having me.

So tell us more about this gun violence archive in the first place.

I know one of the things that we've talked about here before is that federal law because the gun lobby is so

powerful actually prevents some gun-related data from being collected and

disseminated so what do we have? Yeah, so that's a good point. The

Gun Violence Archive is a nonprofit and what they do is they use media reports and

police reports and other publicly available data to gather information

about gun violence incidents across the country.

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