{"id":7526,"date":"2015-12-04T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7526"},"modified":"2015-12-03T18:38:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T01:38:29","slug":"unexpected-good-news-about-gun-violence-it-only-seems-worse-furg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/unexpected-good-news-about-gun-violence-it-only-seems-worse-furg\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected good news about gun violence &#8212; it only *seems* worse #furg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/weve-had-a-massive-decline-in-gun-violence-in-the-united-states-heres-why\/ar-AAfZ6KW?li=BBnb7KB\">We&#8217;ve had a massive decline in gun violence in the United States. Here&#8217;s why.<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fewer Americans are dying as a result of gun violence \u2014 a shift that began about two decades ago. <\/p>\n<p>In 1993, there were seven homicides by firearm for every 100,000 Americans, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/10\/21\/gun-homicides-steady-after-decline-in-90s-suicide-rate-edges-up\/\">a Pew Research Center analysis<\/a> of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By 2013, that figure had fallen by nearly half, to 3.6 \u2014 a total of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/homicide.htm\">11,208 firearm homicides<\/a>. The rate of shootings that didn&#8217;t result in death declined even more precipitously, from 725 in 1993 per 100,000 people to 175 in 2013. <\/p>\n<p>Older data suggests that gun violence might have been even more widespread previously. The rate of murder and manslaughter excluding negligence reached an apex in 1980, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucrdatatool.gov\/\">FBI<\/a>. That year, there were 10.8 willful killings per 100,000 people. Although not a perfect measure of the overall rate of gun violence, the decline in the rate of murder and manslaughter is suggestive: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about-us\/cjis\/ucr\/crime-in-the-u.s\/2013\/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013\/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement\/expanded-homicide\/expanded_homicide_data_table_8_murder_victims_by_weapon_2009-2013.xls\">Two in three homicides<\/a> these days are committed with guns. <\/p>\n<p>This decline in gun violence is part of an overall decline in violent crime. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/weve-had-a-massive-decline-in-gun-violence-in-the-united-states-heres-why\/ar-AAfZ6KW?li=BBnb7KB\">We&#8217;ve had a massive decline in gun violence in the United States. Here&#8217;s why.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a massive decline in gun violence in the United States. Here&#8217;s why. Fewer Americans are dying as a result of gun violence \u2014 a shift that began about two decades ago. In 1993, there were seven homicides by firearm for every 100,000 Americans, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/furg\/unexpected-good-news-about-gun-violence-it-only-seems-worse-furg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unexpected good news about gun violence &#8212; it only *seems* worse #furg<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7527,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions\/7527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}