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Political makeup, racial diversity, gun laws/beliefs, views on immigration are vastly different between the two areas. Donald Trump won the election in Tennessee with 60.7% of the vote, the largest margin of victory for a presidential candidate for either party since 1972. At least Nashville is in one of the blue counties.

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Why are gun laws an issue to anyone that doesn't routinely find themselves getting in fights or entering other people's homes uninvited?

Edit: Also gun laws would be an issue legal firearms owners would be interested in as well.

Well I imagine it's the concern of the friends and family of those that get brutally slaughtered every time there's a shooting, or armed robbery gone wrong.

There isn't a lot of correlation between gun laws in an area and gun violence. Even if you have strict gun laws, its not that hard to get guns in neighboring areas with more lax laws. Also, the vast majority of gun violence is self inflicted, or between associates. If you aren't living in the ghetto, the chances of becoming the victim of random gun violence is slim to none.

What about people who live “in the ghetto”?

Then yeah, it sucks, but they probably don’t have much of a choice of where they are living, and the discussion is about why someone would or wouldn’t want to move somewhere, so it isn’t relevant.

Absolutely irrelevant to what I said.

This is what the parent comment said:

> Why are gun laws an issue to anyone that doesn't routinely find themselves getting in fights or entering other people's homes uninvited?

It's absolutely absurd to assert that only those breaking into houses or getting into fights are only ones getting gunned down.

Every innocent victim of gun violence, both directly affected and friends/family of those involved, have a right to be concerned.

You've made your point known that you believe all republicans are traitors. Can I ask you if you have any Republican friends in your immediate friend circle? Have you asked them what their concerns are and why they feel the way they do?

I probably shouldn't have been biased towards my political preference.

I'm just saying there's other factors, not mentioned by Wes, that me and many others deem important when choosing a place to live. And taken as a whole, NYC and TN are polar opposites in that realm.

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