Points to ponder !

@Spnk8 A lot of countries have regular shootings. Just doesn't happen to be in schools. And it isn't plastered all over the news for people to pull each other's hair off.

The only way to fix the problem is to find the causes of these violent activities and come up with a solution for that. Anything else is simply a bandaid solution.

What we're seeing right now is the democrats and republicans barking at each other like dogs on the street. It isn't going to solve anything.

@rrraksamam yeah exactly and thats because most countries dont have 2 sides its either the gov side or no side. And yeah i agree both Democrats and Republicans both need to stop acting like kids that dont get their way then they call names and fight etc and instead just COME TOGETHER and actually DO something. But itll probably never get that way cause everything is about money 💰 sadly.

@Spnk8 It's all about politics and money. That's why things never get done.

@Roadsterrider The data I found shows the US at number 11 for the period 2009-2015, which includes the Breivik massacre in 2011.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shootings-by-country

Do you have another source that shows the same thing over a shorter or more recent time period? If so, please provide it.

Regardless of the time period involved, all ten of the countries listed ahead of the US have far, far fewer mass killings than the US.

@SW-User Most of the homicides involving a firearm and committed by criminals shooting at one another. Those criminals are going to have firearms whether they are illegal to own or not. Is a mass shooting a situation where a criminal shoots a number of others, killing others being the sole reason, or is it when a bunch of gangbangers or bikers have a brawl that ends in a gunfight? Thise numbers are included in the stats for mass shootings. Depending on who is tracking it is usually 3 or 4 victims excluding the shooter. Some only consider deaths while some also include wounded. There are virtually no accurate numbers from any source because there isn't really a definition of a mass shooting.

How do the levels of gun violence compare in Ireland and the US?
In Ireland, there were 17 homicides by firearm in 2014. (More recent data shows that there were 39 homicide offenses and 2,517 weapons and explosives offenses in 2021.

Switzerland has very few homicides, almost no firearm related crimes, yet children are encouraged to learn to shoot, there is an annual shooting match for children. They have a very high rate of civilian gun ownership as well, not quite as high as the US but significant.

Different levels of crime, different cultures, there is more to the crime in the US than just gun ownership.

@Roadsterrider Maybe so. But no other country in the world has mass shootings on the scale of the US. And the reason? There are more guns than people in the US.

@acpguy Then please explain why the US has more than its fair share of people who want to shoot up schools. Perhaps you could fix that if it is not the guns that are the problem.

@ninalanyon Like I stated: You are a typical kind of idiot............