Actually, the murder rate has been dropping for decades, but we must not let facts stand in the way of our straw men and demagoguery.
Further, no fault divorce, sexual promiscuity, and lax discipline in schools have about ruined the young black males in this country. Take their guns away from them and they will do what the Arabs in Israel are, task up knives. That is why there are more killings in Chicago each day than in Middle Eastern cities: angry, directionless young men, goaded to violence by a angry President and his inner circle.