Reply #213: "After 1996, less than 10% of nonfatal violent crimes involved firearm." (sic)

[Euromutt]

Source: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/percentfirearm.cfm

Admittedly, that does include simple (i.e. non-aggravated) assaults, which are the most common type of violent crime (in 2008, 3.3 million simple assaults formed ~67% of a total of 4.9 million nonfatal violent crimes), and of course, any assault with a firearm is by definition an aggravated assault.

The number of reported crimes committed with firearms has been below 400,000/year since 1998; the gun crime rate has been below 130/100,000 since 1999 (http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/tables/guncrimetab.cfm). It might be noted that the lowest the gun crime rate came in 1973-1997 was 139.4 (in 1977 and 1984); i.e. the gun crime rate has now been lower for eleven years running than it was for the preceding 25 (and probably more).