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Yeah and gun violence statistics take about a decade to compile.  Unless you think there was some large increase in gun violence in that uncovered period, then it still stands to reason that we're on the lowest end of a declining trend.
Seems to be a lot of officers getting shot the last month or so or is that just me? >

That’s a far cry from the “consistently declining for years” or whatever you had before the edit. >

Dude legit the only reason you're making this comment is because you're not looking at the image in the link.
We've been on a declining trend since the 1990's. >

Maybe if the argument was made 7 years ago it would be worth considering, but the image is way out of date. We’ve had 3 presidents since the most recent data point on that chart.