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Everywhere you look, someone is getting gunned down.

DyShieka Whitlow, who heard the gunshots that killed her husband last year in Tennessee. The state has the second highest gun crime rate in the nation, just behind Washington, D.C.

DyShieka Whitlow, who heard the gunshots that killed her husband last year in Tennessee. The state has the second highest gun crime rate in the nation, just behind Washington, D.C.

Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.