Every town in the US has a high rate of gun violence if you compare it to the rest of the developed world. America's overall homicide rate is 7x that of other high-income OECD nations, and gun homicides are twenty five times higher. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26551975/

"Ninety percent of women, 91% of children aged 0 to 14 years, 92% of youth aged 15 to 24 years, and 82% of all people killed by firearms were from the United States."