sc94597 said:
This is wrong. Homicides (including gun homicides) are at their lowest point in the last fifty years, after a sharp spike due to socio-economic factors (a young population + economic stagflation.) Below is a chart since the 90's that compares the guns per capita vs. gun homicide rate over a twenty year span.
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Most likely related to the fact the US has one of the highest incarceration rates in the World, the US is the closest thing the World has to a prison state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate
