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I understand and agree with that there is a problem in some areas with violence in the US.
But its not just in the US its in every country in the world where you have good and bad areas and a lot of violence.
Thats the same in England, France ,Germany and even in the city where I live close to in Austria that there are a lot of violent crimes and bad areas.
I have visited the US a couple of times and will return anytime. I admit compared to Europe there is a very high murder rate which is regarding of the soft rule to be able to buy weaopons which should be changed.

If you believe that you in the US have an unmanagable high amount of violence you should go once in some other countries. Straight down from the US..... and at my last residence in the US I made some friends which told me too in comparison to there countries the violence in the US is really low.
And at the begin of this year I have been to a country compared to this the crime and violence of yours is really low.

I learned people from where I have been which immigrated to other countries some of them also to America to get safer of violence and they are now.
Believe me I have been in the bad areas in Los Angeles Watts,Compton,Inglewood which are really bad nothing compared to countries else I have been.

Some recent studies have also suggested a fascinating link between levels of lead exposure and the crime rate. Seems it could explain some of the post-WWII rise as well:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/07/AR2007070701073.html

I believe that the common denominator in a lot of these issues is the lack of a solid family structure, poor parenting and lack of discipline, that's the root that grows into the unwanted tree of crime. People need to act and interact in a civil manner in order to be part of society otherwise they become part of the unraveling rabble.

Perhaps it would make more sense to consider the reasons for the post-WW2 explosion in crime, which may itself be the aberration (rather than the subsequent decline in crime). Is it possible that major social upheaval, such as the huge migrations following the War, is a better predictor of crime growth than poverty? And might the crime rate have declined as populations stablized, however precariously?

All the criminals I knew from the 80s became gainfully employed by US corporations. Not kidding.

Perhaps much of the violent crime these days is going unreported; especially among those illegal immigrants who are victims of such crimes yet do not report them due to fears of being deported.

From my neighborhood, Crown Heights, it seems that the frequency of shootings has NOT declined. Homicides, yes - but how much of the decline in the homicide rate is due to better and faster medical response?