Sentence examples for rising gun from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lehane ascribed this change to rising gun violence across the nation.

Gun homicide rates have actually fallen in recent years, but those gains have been offset by rising gun suicide rates.

Ms. Pendleton's killing has brought wider attention to Chicago's struggle to stop rising gun and gang violence amid a larger nationwide debate about gun control.

By the 1970s, after rising gun violence prompted a national debate over the interpretation of the Second Amendment, the N.R.A. also made it its business to oppose gun control.

The honor comes amid rising gun violence and anger.

That counts with a president who claims, without elaborating, that rising gun violence in Chicago is "very easily fixable".

Mindful of the fact that passions are rising among gun rights activists as they seem to be ebbing in the other direction, Mr. Obama sought to draw on the emotion and revulsion around the Newtown shooting.

For decades now, violent crime in the US has been trending downward, but gun deaths continue to rise and gun purchases are at historic highs.

For decades now, violent crime in the US has been trending downwards, but gun deaths continue to rise and gun purchases are at historic highs.

But — as this year's election and rising anti-gun sentiment demonstrates — it brings with it the risk of a popular backlash.

The late increase in the American public's fear of crime has many causes, beginning with the real, and terrifying, rise in gun violence particularly among the urban young.