It's the Brian Larry 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? 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 areas, 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 likelyly 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

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