Gun Homicide Rates down to Half 1993 Peak Levels

But public perception of gun homicide rates is a different issue.  I think the White House and the media are playing up shootings in order to push for more gun control, followed by confiscation that disarms the public.

From the original article at Pew Research:

"National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data."