Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)

Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by justanorherhack on Thursday May 26, 2022 @11:21AM (#31519451)

Lots of other countries have firearms and don’t have school shootings. Switzerland and Israel come to mind.

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by nothingisbad on Thursday May 26, 2022 @01:00PM (#31520730)

Per wikipedia[0], the US has an estimated 120 guns per 100 citizens. Switzerland, the number is 27.6, Israel the number is 6.7.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by mrguyorama on Thursday May 26, 2022 @12:17PM (#31520187)

Both those countries require everyone to experience military service, where such a gun is used as a tool to kill. There's much less of a "gun culture" in those countries because guns aren't cool, everyone has used one, everyone is familiar, everyone understands what they are for, namely protection of the country as a whole.

If the alternative to making guns much harder to access is to conscript everyone in the country for a few years to try and beat the gun culture out of them, good freakin luck

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