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[bossy22]

this is overal homicide rates over the last few years (by country) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States this shows crime rates over the course of 50 years. You will notice that there hasnt been a significant change in the U.S. murder rate since 2000- and the AWB sunsetted in 2004.

It should also be noted that international homicide statistics must be taken with a grain of salt- that "salt" is the fact that many western european countries only count homicides in which a killer has been convicted as a homicide- while the U.S. counts all suspected homicides- those with convictions and those without- as homicides

here is some info from the prelim FBI uniform crime report for 2010- it shows that murders and other violent crimes continue to decline http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/preliminary-crime-in-the-us-2009/downloads

heres a really good one http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable_08.html - this breaks down murders by weapon catagories for the years of 2005-2009. as you can see- murder by rifles- which includes so called assault weapons- has been decreasing. In fact for 2009, more than double the amount of people were killed by hands and feet than there killed by rifles including "assault weapons"

hope this helps