Disgraceful: 30 Murders by Guns in England 2012 vs. 8,855 in U.S.
The United States continues to be peculiar in handing out powerful magazine-fed firearms to almost anyone who wants one and not requiring background checks on private purchases even if these are made at gun shows. 80% of civilian-owned firearms world-wide are in the U.S., and only Yemen vaguely competes with us for rates of firearm ownership; Yemen is a violent mess with Shiite insurgencies, al-Qaeda taking over cities from time to time, tribal feuding, southern separatism and US drone strikes. And even it has fewer guns per person than the U.S.A.
It has gotten to the point where the increasing epidemic of mass shootings now threatens the U.S. military, the most powerful military in the world.
The U.S. is downright weird compared to civilized Western Europe or Australia (which enacted gun control after a mass shooting in 1996 and there have been no further such incidents)
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