WHAT THE NEW YORK TIMES DIDN’T TELL YOU: Murders are at a record low and falling in the U.S.

The New York Times front-page editorial asserts a “gun epidemic,” which is an odd phrase, unless you think guns themselves — not deaths or shootings — are an evil.

If the editors meant to refer to a gun-death epidemic or a mass-shooting epidemic, here’s a relevant bit of information: Per-capita murders in the U.S. are at their lowest level since FBI records began, and they are trending downwards.

Never let a fake crisis go to waste. Here’s the chart: