- Countries other than the U.S. have successfully adopted new legislation following mass shootings.
- The U.S.’s firearms homicides rate is 4.14 per 100,000 people, the highest among wealthy countries.
- There have been no shootings in schools in the U.K. since it banned all private handgun ownership.
The U.S. is in a class of its own when it comes to gun violence.
The U.S.’s rate of firearms homicides is 4.14 per 100,000 people, the highest among wealthy nations with a population of 10 million or more, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a health research organization based at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Firearms homicide rates in the U.S. are 22 times greater than in the 27 countries that comprise the European Union, for example.
