Kent Nishimura // Getty ImagesRepublican governors sent National Guard to DC despite violence at homeWhen Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announced he was sending his state’s National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., at President Donald Trump’s request, he framed the move as a matter of public safety. Five other Republican governors — in Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia — also dispatched guard units to Washington in August, echoing Trump’s rhetoric about a city in crisis. “Why is there not more outrage in those states about their higher violence rates?” said Shani Buggs, a violence prevention researcher at the University of California, Davis. The Trace analysis of counties found areas within several Republican-controlled states that face higher levels of gun violence than Washington.