Seen plenty of gun toting rednecks in the rural areas of MD, NJ, NY, even Long Island. As is typical of the entire country it is the cities that cause the problems. Those states just have more of them.
‘plenty of gun toting rednecks in the rural areas of MD, NJ, NY’
New York state is a huge area and away from a few large cities and NYC, of course, it is a different universe altogether. The NYC types hate and distrust places such as upstate with the same passion they do the Tea Party.