There is a sudden spike in homicides in both those graphs you posted Vayloria, but they don't seem correlated to the gun bans as strongly as you insist since the spike in the DC one begins about 10 years apart and the UK graph has about a 5 year difference. What is actually very interesting about those graphs is the spikes are in the relatively same time period during which violent terrorism was on the rise and we had such terrible tragedies such as 9/11. Due to the similarities, I would place a stronger correlation between the rise of violent terrorism and the homicide rate than the handgun ban. It would also explain why there is only a spike in the number of homicides rather than a consistent rise and eventual plateau which would then lead me to side with you as it was a very clear and consistent rise. But to make a point, generally in statistics if there is a spike in the data there is an outside force that isn't being represented throughout the data. In this case, world events.
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