Mass shootings are becoming a depressingly familiar routine in the United States; we can now expect to experience a media grabbing shooting about once a month.
What motivates someone to kill strangers wholesale in a seemingly senseless way
But what they do know is that the number of gun deaths in the US is incredibly high. Most of these deaths are not from mass shootings, but from firearm suicides and murders.
We need to improve both sides of this equation. More treatment, fewer guns.
Though that idea was supported by a controversial 1997 analysis, recent and more thorough analyses have found the opposite effect.
One recent study found that such laws increased the rate of firearm homicides by 9% when homicide rates were compared state by state. That could be because confrontations were more likely to escalate to involve guns or because there were more guns around that could be stolen. Other factors could also be at play.
What motivates someone to kill strangers wholesale in a seemingly senseless way
But what they do know is that the number of gun deaths in the US is incredibly high. Most of these deaths are not from mass shootings, but from firearm suicides and murders.
We need to improve both sides of this equation. More treatment, fewer guns.
Though that idea was supported by a controversial 1997 analysis, recent and more thorough analyses have found the opposite effect.
One recent study found that such laws increased the rate of firearm homicides by 9% when homicide rates were compared state by state. That could be because confrontations were more likely to escalate to involve guns or because there were more guns around that could be stolen. Other factors could also be at play.
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