Gun Violence Falls 63% - Justice Department

Jim Kouri, CPP: Justice Department: Gun Violence Falls 63%. This is good news, and I would hope we see this from all of the news media, but the very fact that it is good news, coupled with the fact that it doesn't help the gun banners, makes me believe that we won't see too much of this. (There is the Michael J. trail to report on after all.)

Estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey indicate that between 1993 and 2001 approximately 26% of the average annual 8.9 million violent victimizations were committed by offenders armed with a weapon. About 10%, or 846,950 victimizations each year, involved a firearm.

• For nonfatal violent crimes, offenders were more likely to have a firearm than a knife or club. From 1993 to 2001 the rate of firearm violence fell 63%
• Approximately half of all robberies, about a quarter of all assaults, and roughly a twelfth of all rapes/sexual assaults involved an armed assailant. About 90% of homicide victims were killed with a weapon. [Weapon does NOT equal firearm, ZDeb]

Many more stats on violent crime are in the article. [Hat tip Keep and Bear Arms]