You do realize that Americana use guns to stop violent criminal attack 2 million times a year...right? And that gun mureders are going down, not up as more Americans own and Cary guns ...right?
and criminals in Europe get fully automatic rifles and 30 round magazines easily...as they do in .france, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden...right...that they don't use them in crimes is cultural and has nothing to do with accessibility...since their criminals get guns as easily as ours,do...right?
and that mass shootings inEurope, when they happen are far worse than they are here...right? because no one over there is armed except for the criminals ...and a lot of the time not even the police have guns...like in Norway and France......
Yeah, I do realise that gun murders are going down, and they're still more than 4 times higher than most western countries.
Yes, criminals can get guns in Europe, so why are murder rates much lower?
You say it's cultural, nothing to do with accessibility. I disagree. The culture is based on accessibility. Just because you CAN get something, doesn't mean that accessibility is the same. It probably costs a lot more to get a gun in Europe than in the US. Guns are available through stealing, and other ways, whereas in Europe many have to be imported which causes no end of problems.
Mass shootings are worse over there? Not really. There are hardly mass shootings.
The UK has had two mass shootings in the last 30 years or so. One was Dunblaine (where Andy Murray was at school) and the Cumbrian shootings. 12 people died in Cumbria in 2010 and 16 people died in Dunblaine.
12 people were killed in Aurora in 2012 by James Holmes, 13 in Binghamton in 2009, 10 in Alabama in 2009, in Red Lake in 2005 10 people died, 15 died in Columbine, 33 died in Virginia Tech
The numbers are pretty similar. The highest numbers are into the needs, more or less. There are some exceptions, like Virginia Tech.
Where the difference lies in the number of low level attacks where one or two people are killed.
Let's look at Secondary Schools, it's where kids go through the hardest time and most likely to snap
List of attacks related to secondary schools - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
This has all secondary school attacks, not just shootings, in the world that are known.
I count 32 incidents where people are killed in US schools since 2010
I count 2 incidents in where people are killed in UK schools (4 dead) since 2010.
Population wise, the UK is 5 times smaller than the US. So, make that three times more incidents in the US than the UK. All of the UK's incidents were without guns.