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Taken here:
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1996/08/03/international-00028/
Here the average homicide rates by decade:
1860 means decade starting 1860 i.e. 1860-1869
1860 1870 1880
1.7 1.6 1.5
1890 1900 1910
1.1 0.9 0.8
1920 1930 1940
0.7 0.8 0.8
1950 1960 1970
0.7 0.7 1.0
1980 1990
1.2 1.4
The guns were banned in 1920s.
There was a decline in homicide rates about 20 years before the gun ban (1900s). The homicide rates stayed about the same through two decades before the ban, and all the way until 1970s when they went up. The homicide rates in the 1990s were again about the same as in 1880s.
Basically, the gun ban didn't seem to be of much help. Both the decline and the incline in homicide rates happened independently of it.
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1996/08/03/international-00028/
Here the average homicide rates by decade:
1860 means decade starting 1860 i.e. 1860-1869
1860 1870 1880
1.7 1.6 1.5
1890 1900 1910
1.1 0.9 0.8
1920 1930 1940
0.7 0.8 0.8
1950 1960 1970
0.7 0.7 1.0
1980 1990
1.2 1.4
The guns were banned in 1920s.
There was a decline in homicide rates about 20 years before the gun ban (1900s). The homicide rates stayed about the same through two decades before the ban, and all the way until 1970s when they went up. The homicide rates in the 1990s were again about the same as in 1880s.
Basically, the gun ban didn't seem to be of much help. Both the decline and the incline in homicide rates happened independently of it.