Murders are a function of the number of community organizers.
This has more to do with Roe V. Wade than anything else. Whether you agree with that decision or not doesn’t matter.
I think the one key thing that could be shown if you did the right chart....is the relationship between urban areas (200,000-plus people) versus lesser areas versus rural areas. If you put the murder listing up....the bulk of murders since the late 1960s (I think) would show up in the top forty cities of the US.
You can go to some areas of Alabama (not Birmingham) and find maybe an average of just five murders over a ten-year period.
Honestly, it looks like per capita murders correlate better with social revolution, not gun ownership.
2nd Amendment bump for later....
There are numerous factors into play. The murder rate should also realize the advancement in emergency medical care in response to bullet trauma.
Just sent the chart and the detail out to my extended emailing list!! Thank you for posting.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life........Robert A. Heinlein
Just for fun, show this graph to a liberal - but without the labels. Tell them the “red” is % of vehicles with airbags, and green is the number of vehicular deaths per 100,000 vehicles. Then ask them what they think the graph tells them.
Only after they’ve answered, tell them it is gun ownership and deaths by firearms. Then ask them what they think the graph tells them.
Then stand back and watch their head explode!
Frankly I’m still stuck on the stat of gun ownership. The highest on record.
Folks, UCR stats are derived from police department participation. It is voluntary.
A full quarter of all police departments in the US do not participate.
So, we really do not have accurate numbers.