The rise in homicides across our state should be alarming to all of us. And while violence has many causes, a big factor is the ready availability of guns. https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Homicides-suddenly-spiked-last-year-in-California-16304461.php … 1/
If guns were an actual factor in the rate of violence, I would expect to be true across America. It's not, though. We don't see high levels of violent crime consistently correlated with high levels of gun ownership.