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The estimated number of aggravated assault offenses rose 1.3%, and the volume of murder and non-negligent manslaughter offenses increased 0.3%. When compared with the estimates from 2018, the estimated number of robbery offenses fell 4.7% and the estimated volume of rape offenses decreased 2.7%. In 2019, there were an estimated 1,203,808 violent crimes.Here is some information directly from the agency’s news release: The data speaks for itself, and if people don’t listen, that’s their fault. This is raw estimate data not run through a grinder to fit a political agenda. The FBI tries extremely hard to be matter-of-fact with the annual UCR, offering numbers and allowing people to draw their own conclusions. If rifles of any kind are involved in a fraction of all the murders in any given year, why are anti-gunners so determined to demonize and then ban semi-auto modern sporting rifles such as the AR-15? This raises a question for hardcore gun prohibition lobbying organizations. And there were even slightly more slayings committed with blunt objects (397) and “personal weapons” (hands, fists, feet), which accounted for 597 murder victims. The FBI says 1,476 people were murdered last year by stabbing or slashing. An estimated 200 murders were committed with shotguns.īut look at the category covering sharp objects. In 2019, for example, the FBI UCR says 364 of the 10,258 gun-related murders that year were known to have been committed with rifles of any kind, including semi-autos, lever-actions, bolt-actions and single shot models. One fact that never changes from one year to the next is that the FBI Crime Report invariably reports more murders committed with knives or other cutting instruments than with rifles or shotguns. Of course, the total body count for all of Illinois last year was 771, but since that state encompasses Chicago, we left them off the list. Those states providing more murder victims than Chicago last year were: Translation: The 495 slayings reported to Chicago police in calendar year 2019 exceeded the number of murders in each of 40 entire states! That is hardly something worth bragging about, and it’s not a dare, although the Windy City this year evidently considers it such because the city has already surpassed last year’s body count and there are still two-and-one-half months to go in 2020. One little detail we dug out of the 2019 UCR actually wasn’t part of the report, but we looked at a state-by-state homicide chart that is part of the report and discovered only 10 states racked up more homicides than the City of Chicago. As reported last week by Insider Online, John Lott at the Crime Prevention Research Center has released an updated estimate on licensed concealed carry in the U.S., putting the number at about 19.5 million. These are all determined to have been “justifiable homicides” by investigators and prosecutors, perhaps a combination of more people owning guns for home defense, and more people who became licensed to carry for their personal protection. Overall, there were 386 self-defense killings by private citizens in 2019, up from the 375 reported in 2018. According to that report, last year saw 334 self-defense shootings by private citizens, which is a jump from the 317 reported in 2018 and the 313 in 2017. This information can be found in the 2019 FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR), which was released the last Monday of September, as is traditional.
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In both categories, handguns played the largest role. While the FBI does not elaborate on the type of handguns used in these incidents, the ATF's analysis of weapons confiscated from crime scenes provides a more specific look at the weapons criminals prefer, which we've shared with you here.For the fourth year in a row, the number of firearm-related homicides declined in the United States in 2019, while the number of self-defense shootings increased. The numbers are stark: According to the FBI's 2012 Crime in the US data, nearly 70 percent of homicides for which the FBI received weapons data involved the use of a firearm and handguns alone accounted for about 72 percent of firearms used in murders and non-negligent manslaughter. Using firearm trace data from the ATF, as well as FBI homicide records, we determined the types of guns most often recovered from crime scenes and/or used in murders. School Shootings: Widely Reported Tragedies Since 2000 Due to a combination of availability, portability and criminal usage the following five types of guns are the country's most dangerous. Contrary to what those who defend the right to own high-powered assault rifles believe, not all guns are created equal.