East of Broken Bow | LPaulson7 - 9/9/2024 09:17
I will agree, I believe the problem is mental health and bullying, thats the root cause. But that problem is going to be nearly impossible to solve as were not the only country in the world with mental health issues...that being said, we are the only country with a mass shooting problem. So the easy way to solve the problem as other countries have is by regulating the guns.
Your statement is not true. One can argue the details, but the US is not at the top of the list for mass shootings when adjusted for population. It is just portrayed as such:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shootings-by...
Average (Mean) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public Shootings (U.S., Canada, and Europe, 2009-2015):
Norway 1.888
Serbia 0.381
France 0.347
Albania 0.206
Slovakia 0.185
Switzerland 0.142
Finland 0.132
Belgium 0.128
Czech Republic 0.123
United States 0.089
In addition, a 2018 CRPC study ranked the U.S. at number sixty-four in the world in terms of mass shooting rates per capita.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3671740
Comparing the Global Rate of Mass Public Shootings to the U.S.’s Rate and Comparing Their Changes Over Time
46 Pages Posted: 28 Sep 2020 Last revised: 27 Sep 2022
John R. Lott
Crime Prevention Research Center
Multiple version iconThere are 2 versions of this paper
Date Written: August 11, 2020
Abstract
The U.S. is well below the world average in terms of the number of mass public shootings, and the global increase over time has been much bigger than for the United States.
Over the 20 years from 1998 to 2017, our list contains 2,772 attacks and at least 5,764 shooters outside the United States and 62 attacks and 66 shooters within our country. By our count, the US makes up less than 1.13% of the mass public shooters, 1.77% of their murders, and 2.19% of their attacks. All these are much less than the US’s 4.6% share of the world population. Attacks in the US are not only less frequent than other countries, they are also much less deadly on average. Out of the 101 countries where we have identified mass public shootings occurring, the United States ranks 66th in the per capita frequency of these attacks and 56th in the murder rate.
Not only have these attacks been much more common outside the US, the US’s share of these attacks has declined over time. There has been a much bigger increase over time in the number of mass shootings in the rest of the world compared to the US.
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