5 major cities on pace to surpass 2021 homicides halfway through 2022 Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Atlanta have all seen homicide numbers outpace their mark from 2021 halfway through this year, with Milwaukee seeing the largest spike of the group, according to crime data reviewed by Fox News. Wisconsin's largest city has recorded 96 homicides as of June 17 compared to 77 at this time a year ago, a 24.7% increase. The numbers continue a trend that has plagued the country since 2020, when homicides in the U.S. increased nearly 30% compared to 2019. That trend continued last year, with the Council on Criminal Justice statistics showing homicides across the county in 2021 increased 5% over 2020.
Your case is that if all these private citizens did not have guns to protect themselves the murder rate would be higher? Black Women Are The Fastest-Growing Group of Gun Owners Between Jan. 2019 and Apr. 2021, of the 48 percent of women gun owners, 21 percent were Black women. Are these Black women the new killers on the block??