I’d have to see a reputable source on that statistic. The sense I get is places like Chicago, NY, Baltimore, other larger urban centers have some pretty strict firearms laws and still tend to have high homicide rates. Do those skew the numbers for the state?

As an example: Illinois may have lax state laws, but Chicago has strict gun laws, and lots of homicides. If you removed Chicago from Illinois statistics, how would that affect the state’s statistics

While a little more dangerous than SF, at 5.5 homicides per 100k NYC is still safer than the US as a whole.

Chicago is bad at 18.26 homicides per 100k. I guess citywide controls have limited impact if people can just drive out to the burbs to buy a gun.