from what i see majority of urban people are against guns, most rural people are for guns. has zero to do with intelligence and some may say. (lots here will say rural people are ignorant). States have various hunting seasons, some even have pistol season. ESPECIALLY with how bad inflation is and how much prices of meat have skyrocketted, more rural people have gone back to hunting. $300 hunting rifle and $30 in ammo can get you $600 in meat easily, and then have that same rifle next year. That is assuming you only get one deer. But there is doe season, open season, buck season, lets not forget duck/quail/pheasant season with a shotgun and small game season. I grew up rural, single mother raising 5 boys, i know first hand how much being able to hunt helps put food on the table.
There will always be cases like the ones linked here, they are bad, but they make up a super small amount of what happens. But as always they are always center stage for control. One child getting shot is always bad. Gun control advocates use them for their reasoning. You are more likely to get hit by a drunk driver than shot by someone. But no one is calling for the ban of alchohal (been tried before, didnt work out too well, expect the same if guns are banned)