claim: "gun homicide is down 49 percent in the past 12 years."
author: facebook posts
evidence_1: may 7, 2013 ... gun homicide rate down 49% since 1993 peak; public unaware. pace of  decline slows in past decade. by d'vera cohn, ... it was two decades ago.  according to a new pew research center survey, today 56% of americans  believe gun crime is higher than 20 years ago and only 12% think it is lower.
evidence_2: dec 3, 2015 ... even though mass shootings are happening more frequently, gun violence in  general is much less common than it used to be. ... that year, there were 10.8  willful killings per 100,000 people. ... according to the fbi's data, the national rate  of violent crime has decreased 49 percent since its apex in 1991.
evidence_3: may 7, 2013 ... the united states has seen a drop in the rate of homicides and other violence  involving guns in the past 20 years, according to a pew research center study  released tuesday. using government data ... but a survey showed that only 12  percent of americans said they felt gun homicides had fallen.
evidence_4: may 9, 2013 ... "despite national attention to the issue of firearm violence, most americans are  unaware that gun crime is lower today than it was two decades ago," the  researchers say. a pew survey of americans in march found 56% believed gun- related crime is higher than 20 years ago and only 12% said it's lower.
evidence_5: may 14, 2013 ... the march pew study, drawn from numbers obtained from the bureau of justice  statistics and centers for disease control and prevention, also found a dramatic  drop in gun crime over the past two decades. their accounting shows a 49  percent decline in the homicide rate, and a 75 percent decline of ...