Crimes like murder seldom cross ethnic or racial lines in the US. Outside of turf wars where gangs of different ethnic groups fight for control of territory, there isn't a lot of violence that crosses racial lines.
I think that can be be a misleading statistic to look at, you're more likely to be murdered by people you know, and you probably know a lot of people of your own race, they are your family at the least. When we look at homicide rates outside people we know though things change at least a little. I would assume that most of us here, accurately or not, are more concerned about being killed by a stranger unless we have some shady friends and family.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm
For homicides committed by --
* a friend or acquaintance of the victim, less than one-tenth (8%) were interracial
* a stranger to the victim, one-quarter were interracial
Of course you have to keep in mind the perspective to:
Data from single victim/single offender incidents showed that 93.2 percent of black victims were murdered by black offenders, and 82.9 percent of white victims were murdered by white offenders.
*and *
In incidents of murder where the relationships of murder victims and offenders were known, 21.6 percent of victims were slain by family members, 23.1 percent were murdered by strangers, and 55.3 percent were killed by someone with whom they were acquainted (neighbor, friend, boyfriend, etc.).
Anyway to the thread starter, don't bother. A correlation won't prove that gun bans or concealed carry rates impact crime. There are more factors, simpler ones at that, that do that. Its a socioeconomic thing, not a gun thing. You don't need to prove anything other than legal gun owners are well behaved people, and the people that are already criminals (and by extension don't care what law you pass making their behavior more illegal) are the ones you need to worry about.
It doesn't look like there were a whole lot of civilian uses of deadly force in 2001, at least not many where the assailant actually died.
Yup, and its probably worth everyone noting that its not unusual either.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable_14.html Rifles are up a little, I always wished the ucr broke the rifles down by style of rifle, or at least caliber. I think the only place caliber is listed is in the leoka report.