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Murders are at a record low and falling in the U.S.

The New York Times front-page editorial asserts a “gun epidemic,” which is an odd phrase, unless you think guns themselves — not deaths or shootings — are an evil.

If the editors meant to refer to a gun-death epidemic or a mass-shooting epidemic, here’s a relevant bit of information: Per-capita murders in the U.S. are at their lowest level since FBI records began, and they are trending downwards.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/murders-are-at-a-record-low-and-falling-in-the-us

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