US murder rate close to historic lows.

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It isn't "crime" that's the problem....it's psychos with guns.


BTW, according to your own chart the number of murders was much lower in 1962.


But this is just about guns.

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

• Total Number of Incidents 48,321
  
• Number of Deaths1 12,224
  
• Number of Injuries1 24,730
  

And does not include suicides.

Read the chart. Murder rate is 4.6 (per 100,000) in 1962 and 4.5 in 2014 So it was slightly lower. Don't know how you read it that way. Murders per capita is the important statistic.

I made this thread because when I made one about why the mass shooting/terrorist act in France most of the replies were all about the murder rate. (In fairness to you, you weren't one of those people, but that was by far the number one response I got there.)

I've always considered 'gun crime' to be a pretty imaginary statistic and raw numbers to be very manipulative considering the US is the third most populated country on the planet. However anti-gun people always frame stats that way instead of per capita. Why? Does a murder victim or their family really care how the crime was committed? If we dumped a bunch of cheap guns into a low crime society like Japan would their murder rate rise to US levels?

Edit: Also I know you have guns on the brain, but this is a thread made by me, and you should note that the word gun doesn't even appear in the opening post.