"The Geography of U.S. Gun Violence"

[SDGuy]

One has to remember that news media often pushes a narrative - for crime, at the moment it appears to be the assaults happening in places like San Francisco & New York, as well as retail theft in large cities. Just because those crimes garner the media's attention doesn't mean those events are rampant (compared to elsewhere) - unless you dig deeper, you won't know that by looking at ust media headlines.

As a reminder for the original thread topic - there are regional differences;
from that one would gather that what works in one place may not work elsewhere.
As I noted above, if one wants to assume that it is just the laws of a particular place that affect the outcome, then to minimize homicides, everywhere in the United States should just adopt New Hampshire's laws.

I suspect that many on this board would have a problem with that, particularly with their laws on firearms
(as noted by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence:
"What New Hampshire Is Missing (i.e. these do NOT exist in New Hampshire)
- Universal background checks
- Gun owner licensing
- Extreme risk protection orders
- Assault weapon restrictions
- Large capacity magazine ban
- Waiting periods
- Concealed carry permit
- Open carry regulations")

I think the tricky balancing act that the States' and the Federal Governments are still trying to figure out is what the boundary is between what is and is not allowed (not only in the laws themselves, but answering the question of which areas are Federal, and which are the domain of the States; i.e. the age-old States' Rights question).