"It's always too soon to talk about gun control"

[robkelk]

So... The New York Times ran the numbers.

They compared mass shooting incidents in various countries. One caveat: this is mass shootings, not mass murders. (They were careful to point that out.)

They were careful to rule out other causes: mental health care spending per capita in the USA is on the same order of magnitude as in other developed countries, people in the USA play video games per capita in the same order of magnitude as in other developed countries, and the overall crime rate in the USA per capita is on the same order of magnitude as in other developed countries. Yet the number of mass shootings per capita in the USA is orders of magnitude higher than in other developed countries. The only difference that the article could identify was the ease of firearm ownership.

And the final paragraph of the article is extremely pertinent to the discussion...