Sure keep calling it that, meanwhile let's look at the real data, (source FBI's UCR tables) the murder rate for the United States in the last published year 2014 was 4.5. Looking back at the table the high was in 1980 at 10.2. In fact the murder rate is little changed over the past five years and has been on a downward trend since 1991. In case you'd like to see data instead of passing along knee jerk reactions go look it up yourself at https://www.ucrdatatool.gov/index.cfm