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cb1000rider wrote:

K.Mooneyham wrote: You are welcome to go look at the FBI violent crime stats, they are there for anyone to see. There were more killings and other violent crimes in years past, peaking in the early 90's. Even as the numbers of violent crimes, to include shootings, has fallen, the attention the media has given to those incidents has risen. One can say it's because "if it bleeds, it leads", and is only motivated by lust for ratings. But if that is so, why so little coverage of the worst of the violence and shootings in big cities done by gangs?

You're spot on. However those statistics don't break down crimes with firearms. I've reviewed them before when faced with the argument that countries without firearms have much lower rates of violence.
It's problematic to argue the US vs non-US because the statistics don't agree on what constitutes "violent crime". Violent crime could be down, but crimes involving firearms up...

So I looked that up.. Per the US department of justice, firearm violence is largely flat since 1999, coming down from a much higher level in 1993.

So there doesn't appear to be a crisis - any better or any worse over the last decade or so... It's just the media.