DV - just because Core believes his state is violence ridden doesn’t necessarily mean it is. My state is a favorite target of right wing news, but our per capita homicide rate is below the mean, while the rates for Alabama, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas , Alaska, Nevada, Illinois, Maryland and South Carolina are the top ten. Yet if you watched these far right sites you’d think my state was a cesspool of violent crime instead of the lovely state it is.