Crime

Sharp Rise in U.S. Firearm Homicide Rate

The latest FBI data shows that in 2016 there was a large jump in the homicide by firearm rate in the United States. Having gradually sunk down from 3.42 per 100,000 population in 2006 to 2.61 in 2014, the rate shot up to 3.80 in the latest recorded period.

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This chart shows homicides by firearm per 100,000 population in the United States from 2006 to 2016.

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