Phil Cook: Is the U.S. Third in Gun Violence Because of Five Cities? Data Doesn’t Support that Claim

Subtracting the number of gun homicides in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and St. Louis from 2022 FBI gun homicide data would decrease the U.S. gun homicide rate from 5.0 deaths per 100,000 people to 4.5 per 100,000 people. If subtracting gun homicides in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and St. Louis from the 2022 data, the U.S. gun homicide rate would decrease to 4.5 deaths per 100,000 people. Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group, analyzed the FBI’s 2022 gun violence data and found that 20 cities, including the five mentioned in the Instagram post, accounted for 50% of U.S. gun homicides.