Look at Australia or Israel. Australia had shootings. Passed a gun control law and... No shootings.
In Israel we have draft law. Everyone knows how to use a gun. In the 90's with the Oslo peace accord gun legislation was reduced. Buying a gun became easy for "self defense".
Suddenly gun violence skyrocketed. Israel quickly changed direction and now even when a soldier goes back home from the army he often leaves his gun behind. Licenses are harder to get and are for a shorter period of time. There are many people with guns and a valid license but strict regulation when applied to the entire country worked.
The one exception is Arab cities which are riddled with crime. This is due to police incompetence and years of neglect. But that's a different subject altogether.
Now I agree that it's not a simple bit of regulation and the USA is a VERY different country. But when done right good legislation saves lives. In the USA you can't even have a computerized database of the gun licenses. You let people sell guns to one another. So many problems that I think most NRA members would agree need fixing. This is pretty toxic.
Maybe 40 years ago, but I think '1st world and 3rd world' countries are more blurry than they used to be. I felt a lot safer in CDMX and Guadalajara than in parts of the Bay Area, and I lived in Mixcuac and Edomex too. Every country has problems.
20 years ago you could consider Israel a 'developing country', and the guns were flowing even more, even jobniks would take their guns home, and mass shootings in israeli society was not an issue. I remember coming back from the base and as a ritual my gf's father checked my gun when i came in his house and put it under his bed til I left on sunday.
Sources: Small Arms Survey, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.·Ownership rates are for 2017. Murder rates for the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia and Spain are from 2016; otherwise, the latest available rates are used.
Also, I personally do not care one whit about gun homicide rates. I care about overall homicide rates, and I think most everyone else does too.
Look at the list before 2000, going back to the early 1900s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...
Then normalize that by the US population over time. There's nothing new.
Heh... an apt handle and a sense of irony in what you wrote that you seem entirely oblivious too doesn't help either.
The joke is ultimately on us in the US since we pay for it all in the end.