Federal health data reveal that states with conservative leadership consistently have higher firearm death rates than their blue-state counterparts.

In 2021, eight of the 10 states with the highest gun death rates per capita were won by Trump in the 2020 election. Mississippi — with a staggering 33.9 per 100,000 firearm death rate, the worst in the nation — voted solidly Republican. By contrast, states with the lowest gun death rates — like Massachusetts, at 3.4 per 100,000 — reliably vote Democratic.

Crucially, this gap isn’t just about suicides in isolated areas; it extends to violent crime and murders as well. A recent analysis of homicide data found that the murder rate in Republican-voting states — such as Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama — was 33 percent higher than in Democratic-voting states in both 2021 and 2022.

Even when researchers control for big urban centers, the red-state murder problem persists. Remove the largest city from every red state, and their homicide rate still far exceeds that of blue states.

The notion that “Democrat-run cities” alone drive violence collapses under scrutiny. People are statistically safer in New York City or San Francisco than in many rural or Southern Republican-led states.

A groundbreaking study also found that firearm fatalities are now more likely in small rural towns than in big cities — a reversal of historical trends. Thanks largely to soaring gun suicides, the most rural counties experienced overall firearm death rates 25 percent higher than the most urban counties in recent decades. That means the archetypal “American heartland” — often solid Republican territory — quietly endures a higher per-capita burden of gun death than metropolises like Los Angeles or New York.

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-gun-violence-red-states/

If you wanna read what Charlie Kirk believed, this website kept track of it thoroughly

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk

For South America, China has become its number one trading partner. Chinese investment in the region is estimated at $200 billion, still much less than that of the U.S., but growing fast, especially in cutting-edge sectors like e-mobility and the green economy.

Exhibit A for this trend are the openings this year of Chinese e-vehicle factories in Brazil — by BYD in the state of Bahia at an industrial park once owned by the Ford Motor Company, and by Great Wall Motors in the state of Sao Paulo, in a locale that once produced cars for Mercedes-Benz.
As political scientist Francisco Urdinez shows in a forthcoming book, Economic Displacement and the End of US Primacy in Latin America, one key reason Chinese companies have moved into Latin America is because U.S. business has been moving out. The policy of attempting to exclude China from Latin America has failed and is bound to continue to fail, because the region badly needs more foreign trade and investment, not less. The United States should compete with China in the Americas, proving that it can build a better mousetrap, not by banning rival producers of mice-catching devices.


https://responsiblestatecraft.org/rubio-trip-mexico-ecuador/