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Of all the statistics related to gun violence in the U.S. that could be mapped, this has got to be one of the most bizarre: from the Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s Wonkblog,\u00a0the number of times a toddler has shot someone since 2015<\/a>, by state. [Landon Schnabel<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all the statistics related to gun violence in the U.S. that could be mapped, this has got to be one of the most bizarre: from the Washington Post\u2019s Wonkblog,\u00a0the number of times a toddler… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[477],"tags":[479,478,158,434],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-crime","tag-guns","tag-shootings","tag-usa","tag-washington-post","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1844975,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/09\/the-2024-u-s-presidential-election-mapped-at-the-precinct-level\/","url_meta":{"origin":1800,"position":0},"title":"The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Mapped at the Precinct Level","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 September 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"VoteHub (screenshot) VoteHub has released a precinct-level map of the 2024 U.S. presidential election results that includes vote density as well as margin\u2014in other words, taking into account how many votes are in a district, not just by how much (tempering the fact of winning 90% of the vote in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/votehub-2024-us-presidential-election-precinct.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/votehub-2024-us-presidential-election-precinct.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/votehub-2024-us-presidential-election-precinct.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/votehub-2024-us-presidential-election-precinct.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/votehub-2024-us-presidential-election-precinct.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/votehub-2024-us-presidential-election-precinct.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":778,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/metroid-metro-video-games-mapped-like-subways\/","url_meta":{"origin":1800,"position":1},"title":"Metroid Metro: Video Games Mapped Like Subways","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 February 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Take a map from a popular Nintendo video game. 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