2018 was the second year in a row during which the homicide rate declined.
According to new homicide statistics released by the FBI last month, the homicide rate in the United States was 5 per 100,000 people.
In 2014, the homicide rate in the US hit a 57-year low, dropping to 4.4 per 100,000, making it the lowest homicide rate recorded since 1957.
At 5 per 100,000, 2018's homicide rate has been cut nearly in half since the 1970s and the early 1990s when the national homicide rate frequently exceeded nine percent.
At the state level, the homicide rate went down in 38 states, and increased in 12.
Using the Giffords Center's rankings of state gun policy, many of the states with the lowest homicide rates are states with the most laissez faire gun policies.
As the total number of homicides in the US has gone down in recent decades, many commentators have taken to fixating on mass shooting events as evidence that the United States is in the midst of an epidemic of shootings.
https://mises.org/wire/homicides-us-fall-second-year-murder-rate-drops-38-states
According to new homicide statistics released by the FBI last month, the homicide rate in the United States was 5 per 100,000 people.
In 2014, the homicide rate in the US hit a 57-year low, dropping to 4.4 per 100,000, making it the lowest homicide rate recorded since 1957.
At 5 per 100,000, 2018's homicide rate has been cut nearly in half since the 1970s and the early 1990s when the national homicide rate frequently exceeded nine percent.
At the state level, the homicide rate went down in 38 states, and increased in 12.
Using the Giffords Center's rankings of state gun policy, many of the states with the lowest homicide rates are states with the most laissez faire gun policies.
As the total number of homicides in the US has gone down in recent decades, many commentators have taken to fixating on mass shooting events as evidence that the United States is in the midst of an epidemic of shootings.
https://mises.org/wire/homicides-us-fall-second-year-murder-rate-drops-38-states
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