A while back, I did a blog entry about child abuse and how it correlates with political leaning. I made a promise at the end of that piece that I would dig a little deeper. You can check on the study above if you want the full scoop, but it boils down to this: in counties Trump one, child abuse was more rampant. It varied from county to county, but on the surface, it appears that Trump counties at the very least aren’t effective at stopping child abuse.

Yet another shooting has happened in the United States of America, which undoubtedly is prompting finger-pointing, shouting, and all sorts of comments about “guns don’t kill people” and the like. Many Republicans will hold up different states and localities as evidence that guns aren’t the problem and that gun violence is more rampant in Chicago (for example). Then there would be another round of handwringing and namecalling, until the next spate of violence.