Report Highlights: California ranked 32nd for homicides in 2024. The state's homicide rates have consistently declined since 2008.

  • California's homicide rate was 26% lower than the national average in 2024.
  • There are approximately 3.3 million gun owners in California.
  • Los Angeles contributed 20% of the state's homicides in 2024, while making up only 11% of the state's population.

  • Los Angeles alone disproves that the overall presence of guns or gun laws explains the outcomes.

    Edit: It’s probably specific, recurring micro-areas of Los Angeles, not the whole of Los Angeles, which shows the concentration, which gun prevalence, by itself, cannot explain and blanket gun restrictions are unlikely to address.

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  • Not a great analysis since it's based on the states manipulated reporting data. They stopped reporting or even taking calls on violent crimes in many cases because the numbers were politically inconvenient.

    The actual rates are much different than they claim, so any conclusions drawn one way or another are invalid.

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