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When the mass shooting happened in Newtown, Connecticut, it rocked me to my core. Adam Lanza had several guns and killed little children.
How many more mass shootings do we have to go through before gun control is enacted? The NRA and gun zealots are so extreme and evil they harass the parents of those who children were killed. Now, that's psychotic.
Our nation is swimming in a flood of guns. The U.S is such a violent country, and it gets exacerbated with the flood of weaponrys in our country.
Mass shooting in the U.S is not rare, and the killers are obtaining their guns legally.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-shootings-in-america/?utm_term=.bad73b116267
If stricter gun control laws lead to fewer deaths from gun-related violence, why is gun control not being demanded by the public?
How many more mass shootings do we have to go through before gun control is enacted? The NRA and gun zealots are so extreme and evil they harass the parents of those who children were killed. Now, that's psychotic.
Our nation is swimming in a flood of guns. The U.S is such a violent country, and it gets exacerbated with the flood of weaponrys in our country.
Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence - BBC NewsHow the US compares: The number of gun murders per capita in the US in 2012 - the most recent year for comparable statistics - was nearly 30 times that in the UK, at 2.9 per 100,000 compared with just 0.1.
Of all the murders in the US in 2012, 60% were by firearm compared with 31% in Canada, 18.2% in Australia, and just 10% in the UK.
Source: UNODC.
Mass shooting in the U.S is not rare, and the killers are obtaining their guns legally.
8. States with stricter gun control laws have fewer deaths from gun-related violence.
In 2011, economist Richard Florida dove deep into the correlations between gun deaths and other kinds of social indicators. Some of what he found was, perhaps, unexpected: Higher populations, more stress, more immigrants, and more mental illness were not correlated with more deaths from gun violence. But one thing he found was, perhaps, perfectly predictable: States with tighter gun control laws appear to have fewer gun-related deaths. The disclaimer here is that correlation is not causation. But correlations can be suggestive:
"The map overlays the map of firearm deaths above with gun control restrictions by state," Florida said in 2012. "It highlights states which have one of three gun control restrictions in place - assault weapons' bans, trigger locks, or safe storage requirements. Firearm deaths are significantly lower in states with stricter gun control legislation. Though the sample sizes are small, we find substantial negative correlations between firearm deaths and states that ban assault weapons (-.45), require trigger locks (-.42), and mandate safe storage requirements for guns (-.48)."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-shootings-in-america/?utm_term=.bad73b116267
If stricter gun control laws lead to fewer deaths from gun-related violence, why is gun control not being demanded by the public?