Our serious problem with gun violence
by digby
There are many ways of defining what constitutes a mass shooting but it's fair to say that the United States has a lot of them.
Vox did a recap of our very exceptional relationship to guns.
They also pointsout that we have much more gun violence than other developed nations
This chart, compiled using United Nations data collected by the Guardian's Simon Rogers, shows that America far and away leads other developed countries when it comes to gun-related homicides:
Why? Well, they speculate that it because we own so goddamned many guns
[T]he empirical research shows places with more guns have more homicides.
But quick, look over here: ISIS!!!
