@bigheadtales @lednaBM @Runyan50
Gun Crime Rate (excl. mass shootings, per 100,000):
1980s: 5.5-7.0
1993: Peak at 7.0
1995-2005: 4.0-5.0
2010: ~3.6
2020: 6.1 (pandemic spike)
General decline since 1990s, with recent increases.
It's not the guns - it's something else driving the spikes.