Gun violence in America is way down. So says the federal government less than a month after President Obama's push to tighten background checks failed to pass in the Senate. Firearm homicides have declined 39 percent since 1993, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report released on May 7. A separate study by the Pew Research Center put the decline at an even more impressive 49 percent. Nonfatal gun crime also dropped over two decades-by an eye-opening 69 percent, according to the government.
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机译：美国的枪支暴力正在下降。如此说，联邦政府在奥巴马总统加强背景调查的努力不到一个月后，未能通过参议院。根据美国司法统计局5月7日发布的报告，自1993年以来，枪械凶杀案的数量下降了39％。皮尤研究中心（Pew Research Center）的另一项研究显示，枪械凶杀案的下降幅度更是惊人的49％。政府表示，非致命枪支犯罪在过去的二十年中也下降了-令人惊讶的是，这一数字下降了69％。
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