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Originally Posted by crockett
90% of the country does not equal 90% of the population. The US is just like every other modern country in the world most of the population lives in cities. Not in the rural lands.. Example the population of the entire state of Utah is 2.8 million. Nevada is 2.7 million. Meanwhile the population of LosAngeles is 3.8 million. Austin a smaller city than Dallas, Houston or even San Antiono has a population of almost a million.
Why should states like Nevada or Utah have anymore say than a city like LA? Btw the city numbers only count the people in the actual city limits and not the suburbs.
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good point
also found this factoid while searching for the numbers above
According to 2008 data from the Centers for Disease Control, “60% of U.S. firearm homicides occurred in [only] 62 cities.” These tend to be isolated to the largely black and poor areas of major cities. -