when you cite a hack site like Reason, you really are wasting my time.
MEXICO is a third world country. It's not a good comparison.
The Good comparisons are the OTHER G-7 countries - The UK, Canada, Germany, Japan, Italy and France. Those are our peer group in terms of government, technology, legal precedence and economic development.
All of those countries seriously limit who can own a gun.
All of those countries have much lower crime and murder rates than we have.
All of those countries have a FRACTION of our prison population.
so the question is, what are they doing right that we are doing wrong? And I don't limit it to any one answer. Germany as pretty liberal gun laws compared to Japan. But because gun ownership is not considered a right and there is rigorous screening before you can own one of Germany's 17 million privately owned guns, they have almost no mass shooting incidents...
But this batshit insanity where Joker Holmes can walk into a gun store and walk out with a military grade assault rifle and a 100 round magazine is just plain nuts.