Even The Trace Admits Murders Are Down

By Tom Knighton

Violence is never pretty. In a perfect world, people wouldn’t commit violence on one another. Of course, we’d also all ride unicorns to work and go to Middle Earth for vacation from time to time.

The perfect world doesn’t exist. We’re stuck with this one, which is fine. This world isn’t particularly bad. In fact, it’s good enough that even The Trace, an anti-gun “journalism” site has to admit that the national murder rate isn’t all that bad.

he U.S. murder rate is often regarded as one of our country’s vital signs: Are Americans more or less safe than last year, when it comes to their odds of meeting a violent end?

But misinformation abounds. Is the murder rate really “the highest it’s been in 45 years,” as claimed by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump? (No.) Is Chicago America’s murder capital? (Also no.)

Because the vast majority of American homicides are committed with guns, both the national murder rate and the more relevant citywide and neighborhood murder rates — about which, more below — frequently figure into our reporting at The Trace. In this guide, we’ve collected the most up-to-date statistics on murders in America, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms