Another from the department of "Well, Duh"

[flamin lib]

Study links gun ownership rates to mass shootings

http://www.dw.com/en/study-links-gun-ownership-rates-to-mass-shootings/a-18667703

"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, a criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama, in a press release. "That is not a coincidence."
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"The connection between firearms and mass shootings is something people have speculated about for a long time," Lankford told DW in a telephone interview. "This is the first time that empirical evidence confirmed this connection, but the strong association between the two was even surprising for me."
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"I didn't come into this study with any gun control agenda - I just let the data speak for itself," Lankford told DW. "Whether people are willing to act on it is another question."

Pretty interesting article. Some differences between the US and other countries are that our shooters use multiple weapons and seem to manage to kill fewer people. I guess if just anybody can get a gun some of them are going to inept.

So now the question remains, how can we decrease the gross number of guns without intruding on the genuine peaceful and responsible gun owners?

And just in case anyone is interested the study was done be a CRIMINOLOGIST! Don't know but somebody might find that fact interesting.