Are you implying that legal gun ownership leads to an increase in violent murders?
Bullets; and by extension guns.
TFA doesn't go into detail (that I could find) about the cause of deaths that occurred in the mentioned 'violent deaths'.
This should be plainly obvious.
What point are you making? Other than perhaps unintentionally backing the pro-gun lobby idea that guns are just tools.
That if you're worried about the harmful effects of guns, don't discount suicide just because those people aren't harming you.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
Homicide rate in EU is 1.7, US is 5.8 or 4.3 (Firearms only).
Go look at a heat map of per-capita gun homicides in the US. This is not a "national" problem. Communicating this has been very challenging for people who live in Chicago in particular - everyone thinks the entire city is a killzone, when in fact there are perfectly safe neighborhoods, and other neighborhoods that are a warzone. But if you were to only see the citywide statistics for Chicago murders, you wouldn't even leave the airport.
It's a culture problem. America has a violent culture.
It's weird to me that we so often discuss firearm violence without also considering the prevalence of other forms of violence; these are symptoms of an underlaying concern.
All of this is irrelevant in any case. 99.95% of guns are benign in the US. This isn't conjecture - its a clear ratio of total guns in circulation vs gun homicides. A law-abiding owner of a gun should be as concerned by a gun used in a murder as a chef would be concerned about someone being stabbed with a pearing knife.
If you want a more realistic answer, I would suggest both economic desperation (unemployment, inequality, need) and pressures due to a new and unnatural mode of living enforced on the population (lockdown). Or if you want to get political, all of the cities in the infographic are blue cities that moved to lax policing policies in 2020.
If the correlation were strong, you would expect to see them increase similarly...
Keep in mind that GVA does not discount suicides from their report.
In USA there are more non-gun murders per capita than total murders in Australia.
By comparison, contrary to popular belief, several European countries allow people to buy firearms with similar availability as the US. The main examples that come to mind are Switzerland, Serbia, and the Czech Republic. The last one also permits concealed carry of firearms - something several US states prohibit.
Widespread availability of firearms is likely a magnifying factor in areas with conditions that lead to crime, but plenty of areas with widespread gun ownership like much of rural America have low homicide rates.
By comparison, America has an estimated 353 million civilian guns, netting to just over each man, woman, & baby having a gun. Additionally, the laws are extremely lax meaning the government has poor records, enforcement, & a hodge-podge of laws across state lines around gun ownership.
The type of superficial comparison that’s always trotted out in this kind of discussion is always so frustratingly predictable and superficial. Studies have repeatedly shown that in American society, increased gun availability directly tracks with homicides & mass casualty events. You can either regulate guns more akin to the nations you hold up as “exemplars” or make gun ownership less common. All attempts to regulate this situation in any way, shape, or form is regularly fought by Republicans, even for “common sense” legislation that has broad bipartisan appeal across party lines. Heck, often times people thing the government already does background checks for gun ownership without realizing the huge loopholes & intentional castrating of the background check process render the entire process a joke.
https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-australias-gun-laws-r...
The relationship between poverty and shooting deaths is very strong though.