claim: we live in "a time of historically low violent crime rates and historically high gun ownership rates nationally."
author: fred thompson
evidence_1: may 7, 2013 ... national rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower  now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general ... the peak of  u.s. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there  were fewer deaths, even though the nation's population grew.
evidence_2: nov 30, 2015 ... and then they have asked the usual questions: “when are we going to do  something about all the gun crime?”; “how bad will it ... this is not to say that all  cities and areas are experiencing decreases in violent crime year after year, but  the overall rate of violent crime is significantly lower than historic levels.
evidence_3: jun 15, 2016 ... that means a gross total of 132 million new guns were added into the us  population over that time period. ... moreover, we must ask ourselves if the us  was engaged in a "suicide pact" in the 1940s and 1950s when homicide rates  where at historic lows, when the second amendment existed, and when ...
evidence_4: i added the latest available data to eisner's data and visualized this in the  following graph. european homicide rates have dramatically decreased over the  last millennium and have remained steadily low over the past 50 years. italy has  historically had higher homicide rates than other european countries, but today  those ...
evidence_5: mar 16, 2015 ... according to the national crime victimization survey, since 1993 the rate of  violent crime has declined from 79.8 to 23.2 victimizations per 1,000 people.  americans who ... there were 129 mentions of "homicide" or "murder" in the  times' headlines in 1990, when the murder rate was at a historical high.