Connecticut’s new laws were passed AFTER Sandy Hook, and their statistics have been much improved.
And yes, there are countries where mass killings happen and we don’t hear about them. But not among the First World countries. Maybe now we’re on par with the Third World.
I’ll post this again, from the University of Sydney. They have more gun statistics than you’ll ever want to see.
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states
For example, they have separated gun deaths into handgun homicides, long gun homicides, handgun suicides, unintentional handgun deaths, etc. They have separate categories for info from the CDC (because the CDC isn’t usually allowed to study gun violence).
The CDC’s numbers for handgun homicides for 2013 = 853
The FBI’s numbers for handgun homicides for 2013 = 5782
Mr. Ellebud, the WASP that he is…quiet emotions, held in emotionally…was yelling at the television this morning. We have to do something here…We are non guns ownerss. We have gone to a gun range and shot targets. But this lunacy has to stop. I can’t stand seeing more parents and children sobbing.
I think we need to make gun ownership socially undesirable, the same way we did with smoking.
Can call out the gun fetishists for who they are. People who value a piece of metal more than human life.