Your CDC charts and conduits charts are looking at different things. It is not gun ownership that lowers homicide rate it is stricter gun laws.. Stricter gun laws are compatible with higher ownership, as Hawaii data shows. The trend has been toward tightened gun laws and higher gun ownership nationally!so if these stats are correct it seems the states at the top of conduits charts need more guns to continue this trend of lower homicide rates.
https://www.aei.org/publication/chart-of-the-day-more-guns-less-gun-violence-between-1993-and-2013/
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The CDC charts do not show cause they only show correlation.
The important charts for you are the first one Conduit posted in conjunction with a chart showing gun ownership increasing. That will explain nicely what you are seeing in the CDC charts.