LogFAQs > #931860166

the notion of that statement isnt technically true. most of the time governments rephrase what constitutes as a mass shooting (domestic incidents tend to be left off the table in a lot of instances) and in general those incidents may happen less, but are never completely eliminated. theres actually a lot of shootings in the countries everyone likes to bring up, they just dont have high body counts largely do to them being personal 1 on 1 affairs or gang affiliated.

a lot of time when someone also mentions that phrase they like to cite countries who rarely had very many mass shootings to begin. countries that may have had 1, then enacted heavy gun control and that went down to 0 or maybe 1 every several years. that type of ratio is impossible to get any real type of data from especially in comparison to america where mass shootings vary wildly year by year. its incredibly difficult to get a consistent result.

another area that tends to get over looked when spouting about gun deaths is that it rarely ever takes overall homicides into account. when heavy gun control gets enacted you usually see an increase in other forms of deaths (especially arson) that tend to either replace or take up a good percentage of deaths that may have theoretically been taken up by guns. on top of homicides other forms of crimes also get an uptick like rapes, home invasions and robberies.

a lot of the other places that have heavy gun control also have a lot of other safety nets and social programs in place that tend to curb unease and the will to lash out. the US has a strong issue with this that breeds discontent and resentment which makes it easier for people to turn to violence. theoretically tackling stuff like healthcare, less pay gaps, better job security ect. could significantly reduce over all violence each year without ever touching guns and humanity as a whole could be in a better place going forward.

lastly the US has a liberal estimate of 400+ million guns in it. there are more guns than people. because of that it stands highly likely that they will be used in more crimes and deaths. thats the way everything works. however taking that into consideration and how some people think if guns truly were the problem, if true then the US would be a mad max apocalyptic wasteland right now. this isnt the case and based on what we know only about .03-.05% of firearms in civilians hands typically get used for nefarious purposes. statistically these types of shooting situations based on population size and gun availability are EXCEPTIONALLY low. but because of how the news network and social media work you tend ot hear about every little thing making the situation seem like an epidemic despite gun violence in general going down nearly year after year and over 50% from where we were in the 90's.