17 times?!?!? That is... extreme.
I wonder if means rape happens less often, or if rape is less reported in Russia.
33 people murdered for every 100,000 people is absolutely huge. Very brutal.
This data tells me there are a number of factors at play; poverty, education, police response, resources, access to weapons, etc etc. Common sense gun regulations aren't the only piece of the puzzle... but I do think they are an important piece.
The US does have a precedent for this... in 1994 they passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act that lasted for 10 years and only applied to the purchase of new semi-automatic rifles during that time (weapons already owned were not affected).
You can see that when there were fewer mass shootings in the US between 1994 and 2004, and then a rise in mass shootings from 2005 to 2017.
I'm not an expert and I might be completely wrong, maybe common sense gun laws would not impact the USA in any way, but to me this problem seems big enough to try something to solve the problem. If the concern is that common sense gun regulations will do absolutely nothing, then do the same thing as in 1994 and have the act automatically expire... but at the moment the problem just seems to be getting continually worse, so the US needs to try something.
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