Americans can’t handle their guns. There were a whopping 692 mass shootings in the United States last year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines mass shootings as having “a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.”
In 2021, more than 45,000 Americans were killed by firearms. And while we have just over 4% of the world’s population, as of 2017 we had over 40% of the world’s civilian-owned guns.
There have been 2,069 school shootings in America since 1970, according to the Center for Homeland Defense and Security’s Naval Postgraduate School’s K-12 School Shooting Database. But after every shooting, all we see from most Republican lawmakers is idle talk about “locking doors” and the ever-popular “thoughts and prayers.”
Meanwhile, other countries tighten gun laws after mass shootings, including Canada, which still has relatively high gun ownership rates but much lower gun homicide rates compared with the United States.
America’s only option is to take drastic action and reform our antiquated Constitution.
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