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The majority of murders in the U.S. occur in only a small percentage of counties across the country. The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) said in a new report that there is a “geographical concentration” of murders, with 68 percent of killings occurring in just 5 percent of the nation’s counties. The homicides also tend to be concentrated to relatively small pockets of those counties, the report said. The report’s authors also looked at numbers from a 2013 REW Research Center survey, which found that the household gun ownership rate in rural areas was over two times greater than in...

Additional writings from Chaplain Staton for this week: CRYING OUT I read and hear much about the crying out of people wanting us to pull out of Iraq because of the military deaths that are the result of being involved in that conflict. I deeply understand the concern and pain of those who have lost loved ones to this conflict. I also know the pain of the separation from loved ones that death brings into our lives. This crying out against the war in Iraq has caused me to give much thought to the great loses suffered by this country....