claim: "over the past twenty years, the number of homicides committed with a firearm in the united states has decreased by nearly 40 percent. the number of other crimes involving the use of a firearm has also plummeted, declining by nearly 70 percent."
author: doug whitsett
evidence_1: may 14, 2013 ... firearms sellers can thank the gun-control legislation lobbies for ... the other was  reported by the pew research center. according to doj's bureau of justice  statistics, u.s. gun-related homicides dropped 39 percent over the course of ...  also found a dramatic drop in gun crime over the past two decades.
evidence_2: doug whitsett · "over the past twenty years, the number of homicides committed  with a firearm in the united states has decreased by nearly 40 percent. the  number of other crimes involving the use of a firearm has also plummeted,  declining by nearly 70 percent." — politifact oregon on saturday, september 7th , 2013.
evidence_3: may 7, 2013 ... national rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly ...  nearly all the decline in the firearm homicide rate took place in the 1990s; ...  looking back 50 years, the u.s. gun homicide rate began rising in the ...  researchers have studied the decline in firearm crime and violent crime for many  ...
evidence_4: apr 15, 2016 ... in the early 1990s, u.s. crime rates had been on a steep upward ... and handgun- related homicides more than doubled between 1985 and 1990. ... by decade's  end, the homicide rate plunged 42 percent nationwide. ... maybe the decrease in  alcohol consumption over the last few decades had an effect.
evidence_5: dec 4, 2015 ... but there's another possible reason for the decline in gun violence ... adjusted for  the us population, the number of guns per american increased from 0.93 ... the  gun-related homicide rate of 3.6 deaths per 100,000 population in each of ......  there is also no evidence that the percentage of gun owners has ...