California gun homicide rate has fallen, but within the state there are wide disparities with some of the highest rates in the farm belt counties rather than the big cities, and wide differences am…
Firearm deaths have fallen sharply in California over the last 30 years compared with the rest of the country, a new state Department of Justice study has found, but rates vary dramatically across counties in the Bay Area and throughout the state.
The report’s release comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom pushes for more gun laws in a state that already leads the U.S. in firearm restrictions — some of which are getting pushback from the courts. He is also pushing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would embed restrictions that courts have questioned on Second Amendment grounds.
U.S. overall firearm mortality rates are back where they started 30 years ago at about 15 per 100,000 after dropping to about 10 per 100,000 around 2004. California’s firearm homicide rate, nearly 10 per 100,000 30 years ago, is half that today at 4.3 per 100,000, below the 6.5 per 100,000 U.S. rate, which is similar to what it was three decades ago.
The report didn’t offer an explanation for what it called “considerable disparities in gun homicide rates between different communities in California, both between and within counties, cites, and neighborhoods,” but it noted that the five highest rates are in the state’s farm belt counties — Kern, San Joaquin, Fresno, Monterey and Solano.
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