Monday, August 24th, 2015
Stephan: Ever since I have returned from Sweden I have been pointedly aware of gun deaths; it is such a distinctive feature of American culture, and so absent in most of the rest of the developed world. Now a new study has come out that makes the effects of large numbers of guns on society even clearer. Note also what this study doesn't include: "these shootings do not include incidents that occurred solely in domestic settings or were primarily gang-related, drive-by shootings, hostage taking incidents, or robberies." If that number were added to the study we would be off the chanrts, and It tells us that the state of our state is not well.
Citation:
"Mass Shooters, Firearms, and Social Strains: A Global Analysis of an Exceptionally American Problem," will be presented on Sunday, Aug. 23, at 2:30 p.m. CDT in Chicago at the American Sociological Association's 110th Annual Meeting.
Convention goers check out handguns equipped with Crimson Trace laser sights at the 143rd NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 25, 2014
Credit: Agence France-Presse
Despite having only about 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States was the attack site for a disproportionate 31 percent of public mass shooters globally from 1966-2012, according to new research that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). (emphasis added)
“The United States, Yemen, Switzerland, Finland, and Serbia are ranked as the Top 5 countries in firearms owned per capita, according to the 2007 Small Arms Survey, and my study found that all five are ranked in the Top 15 countries in public mass shooters per capita,” said study author Adam Lankford, an associate […]
