First off, thank you for posting this, but it should be clear that I was never trying to make the opposite argument that I personally have any special insight i

First off, thank you for posting this, but it should be clear that I was never trying to make the opposite argument that I personally have any special insight into why the murder rate changed. I just want an investigative article looking into this to address these questions and present more than just temporal correlation. It presumably didn't take you more than a few minutes to look this stuff up, so why didn't the original author of the headline article bother to do it?