Valuable graphics for countering gun control/safety arguments

[hso]

The American Enterprise Institute took CDC, URC and Congressional Research Service data on firearms and crime and provide the following chart.

Bottom Line: Even if you’re not convinced that increased gun ownership reduces violent crime and gun homicides, you should be totally convinced of this indisputable fact: Gun violence has been decreasing significantly over time, not increasing as you’ll frequently hear from anti-gun politicians and progressives. The gun-related homicide rate of 3.6 deaths per 100,000 population in each of the years 2010, 2011 and 2013 makes those recent years the safest in at least 20 years, and possibly the safest in modern US history, since “older data [before 1993] suggest that gun violence might have been even more widespread previously,” according to Ehrenfreund.

 

[jmorris]

Would be interesting to see a longer timeline and geographical data as well. Would show a more complete picture.

10 guns owned in Texas really has no relationship with homicides in DC and vice versa.

 

[hso]

You could represent the percentages on a 3 axis bar graph by state, but it would be too complex for most people to understand. A graph like the one above for each state would do what you want, though.