There are quite a few other countries with far far fewer guns (and significantly stricter laws) and higher gun homicide rates. The majority of gun deaths in the US are suicides, where we are one of the higher rates in developed countries (Japan is higher - but no guns)
I don’t know about the veracity of this statement. I lived for many years in the UK and the EU and people didn’t experience the constant fear that we’ve normalized in the States. They don’t have mass shooters, they don’t have a population afraid of the police. They do have restrictive gun laws.
Gun violence is a multivariate problem, and access to guns is not really a driving factor. Inequality is correlated at a much higher rate to gun violence than gun access.
Inequality isn't fueling mass shootings.
"Across dozens of studies, almost all of which have used regression to assess the apparent relevance of a packet of potential predictors, the most consistent and often the strongest predictor ...
... of homicide rates has proven to be economic inequality, usually operationalized as the Gini index of income inequality" Inequality, grievances, and the variability in homicide rates - ScienceDirect share.google/B157zrhA1Gql...
Frequently in the US, these mass shootings have been based on "perceived grievances", while daily gun violence is absolutely due to inequalities that continue to grow. There is a difference.
Mass shootings are something like 1% of US gun deaths. Even so, "perceived grievances" are not caused by guns. Guns don't *cause* any of this. Maybe they make it easier to act on those perceived grievances, or maybe people would find another way to lash out. Culturally we leave people on islands.
How many times a day are you told to pound sand?
If you don't understand a problem, policy proposals are unlikely to solve it. That is one lesson that stuck with me from my public policy masters.
Funny... I thought I blocked you... I will try again.