Rate Of U.S. Gun Violence Has Fallen Since 1993, Study Says

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38. Facts you don't like? Try these:

http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/top-news/reports-show-gun-homicides-down-since-1990s/nXjqj/



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A study released Tuesday by the government's Bureau of Justice Statistics found that gun-related homicides dropped from 18,253 in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011. That's a 39 percent reduction.

Another report by the private Pew Research Center found a similar decline by looking at the rate of gun homicides, which compares the number of killings to the size of the country's growing population. It found that the number of gun homicides per 100,000 people fell from 7 in 1993 to 3.6 in 2010, a drop of 49 percent.

Both reports also found that non-fatal crimes involving guns were down by roughly 70 percent over that period. The Justice report said the number of such crimes diminished from 1.5 million in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011.

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By the way, until this year I did not believe in very much gun control at all. Since Aurora and Sandy Hook, I believe we need a central national gun registration and back ground checks as a starting point.

But the facts are the facts and a net drop of 49% in the murder rate per capita from '93 to 2010 is great but not good enough.