Guns: how much longer will it take ....

RABEL222 wrote:

And the weak laws that allow these gangs to acquire these guns.

...I'm truly astonished at the inanity of this comment.

Do you think gangs go down to the local gun store and wait for the background check before buying their guns? NO LAW IN THE WORLD will stop these gangs from acquiring illegal guns.

Seriously, what law do you think could exist that would stop them?

A complete stop is unrealistic. A law that would make firearms extremely scarce would achieve a big curb, though.

The derogation enjoyed by Switzerland" isn't related at all to shooting clubs.

What you call "inaccurate terminology" is from the argument of Czech Republic [and Hungary and Poland].

You asked about a law, I proposed one.

Why do you consider it fantasy land?

Because the gun extremists would be against it?

They are a minority that has so far been over-represented and public opinion is turning toward greater gun control.

Shortly after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, the research analyst Marisa Booty was tasked with updating data about mass shootings for the Center for Gun Policy and Research and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. But while sorting through publicly available data, she found all of the sources defined mass shootings slightly differently.

Now, Booty and her team of researchers are calling on the US government
to establish a consistent definition of mass shootings. In a study published on 3 December, Booty and other researchers analyzed four commonly cited public databases and found that the reported number of mass shootings in 2017 ranged from 11 to 346.

This led to concerns about lobbyists and lawmakers only using the mass shooting data that best matches their individual agenda. The researchers say this inconsistency can slow legislative progress and affect the level of media attention on incidents that don’t meet certain standards.
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“Since a lot of these definitions revolve around persons killed and fatalities, events with nonfatal injuries are easily overlooked in discussion and policy,” Booty says.
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“We hear about high-profile mass shootings that are happening at schools and in churches but a lot of violence in neighborhoods isn’t being as heavily weighted,” Booty says.

“Regardless of the circumstances of the incident, multiple people are being shot and potentially killed, and people are suffering lifelong consequences.”

Besides the number of fatalities and injuries, mass shootings are often distinguished by heavy news coverage that analyzes statistics and theories about what causes these tragedies. But instances of domestic and community violence often don’t receive this level of extensive media attention.

“The news has a big role to play in what we are and aren’t talking and thinking about,” says Pamela Mejia, the head researcher for the Berkeley Media Studies Group. “We can’t solve a problem that we don’t know is happening.”

Booty and her team recommend that the definition of mass shooting should be four or more people, excluding the shooter, who are shot in a single event regardless of the motive, setting, or number of deaths. They hope that the federal government can agree on a consistent definition that researchers and officials can use as the basis of policy recommendations.

“We need to come together and come up with a definition that not necessarily everyone agrees on but will help us better determine the burden that mass shootings are having on the country,” Booty says.

Today, despite national campaigns and mass shootings, gun sales continue to rise. The majority of gun owners in the United States are men, and prior research has documented the complex relationship between masculinity and gun ownership. However, a majority of the research has remained on the micro level. In this article, we look at the effects of men’s unemployment on gun ownership. Using both national‐ and state‐level Federal Bureau of Investigation background‐check data as well as economic indicators, we find that worsening economic conditions for men (relative to women) lead to increases in gun sales. Moreover, this effect is exacerbated by the prevalence of guns in an area. We supplement these analyses with nationally representative survey data showing a strong relationship between perceptions of threat to men’s gender identities and opposition to laws limiting access to guns.

spoken like a true faux-macho misogynist..

False. It points out faux-macho misogyny, so blatantly obvious.

They present evidence.