Are Guns the Cause of the Rising Homicide Rate?
Some public officials argue that the problem of teenage homicide is directly related to the availability of firearms. In a narrow sense the argument is accurate, because the majority of murders are committed with guns. Yet it is not accurate to claim that there is a correlation between the availability of guns and the frequency of homicide. If there is any relationship between gun density and homicide in the United States, it is an inverse one. In other words, the regions with the most guns are the regions with the lowest homicide rates.
