Mummelmann said:
This is true, but these incident are extremely rare in these countries/regions, and even a one-off in Norway, while they're becoming increasingly common in the US. It doesn't take a genius to figure that more guns in general circulation and ownership, legal or otherwise, increases the chances of gun-related incidents. Same as increased traffic causing more accidents, it's one step below 101 as far as cause and effect go. The way things are now are clearly not working; time to change the playing field. |
Unfortunately, the statistics disagree with you. In US alone, the gun ownership has increased quite a lot, whereas crime, including gun related, has decreased significaly as well. Furthermore, in the areas of the US where the gun control is quite strict, such as Detroit and Chicago, the homicide rate is insanley high, whereas places with liberal gun laws have considerably smaller crime rate.
Even if we take the US out of equation, there are other countries as well who have lot of guns among civilan populations, such as Serbia and Switzerland and yet have nowhere near the same amount of mass shootings the US or even Norway have, so guns are certanly not the problem
