Less than people would have you believe. Violent crime in the US is at the lowest point in 20 years. Areas with the highest crime rates typically are also the areas with the most gun control laws.
Some countries are similar in gun violence to the US, and other countries are more pacific.
Chicago and Washington DC in the US
Depends on what you define as gun violence and where you look. Subjectively: It is getting worse in UK, despite near-total gun ban. It is not getting worse in US.
At first glance it doesn't seem to does it? However, just imagine if all guns were outlawed, and law abiding people had no access to them. Only criminals (because they don't obey the law anyway) had them - how much gun violence would there be THEN?
You may not buy a gun in the US if you are an unlawful drug user, or have been convicted of domestic violence.Crimes of domestic violence, being an unlawful drug user.
No violence is good.
Not in the US. Federal law, applies in all states
None. It has decreased.
There is no "putting a gun under your name" in Texas- or in most of the US. If the misdemeanor is domestic violence, you may not possess a firearm anywhere in the US.
Less than heart attacks, cancer or addiction.
Not in Utah, nor anywhere else in the US.
Violence, as gun deaths are a subcategory of violence.