There are several every day. The US Media just doesn't cover them. There are, at a minimum, 60,000 cases of known deterence in any given year.
And there are over 1,000 cases of lawful homicide (self-defense). Now take out organized crime statistics (pre-pandemic), and there's not much more of unlawful homicide.
Organized crime trafficks drugs, guns and humans across any borders, accounts for 85% of unlawful homicides, inluding over 90% of teenage gun deaths. Organized crime in the US nearly doubled from $1T/year to $2T/year black market equivalent GDP. And people wonder why we have low unemployment? People had to get jobs to support their families when they lost theirs, so they went organized crime.
This is straight from the FBI. The AWB studies of '97 (of '94-96) and '00 (of '97-'99) also showed no reduction in either rates of gun crime nor rates of death per minute, based on the firearm. The FBI has long established that no rate of change differs in semi-automatic weapons, and 45 cartridges per minute is the maximum.
No, it's
only 18 (4+ killed, not including the shooter, the pre-2013 FBI, as well as EU, statitic -- this
'3 injuried' is to skew statistics) in a country with
330M people. Per-capita is quite high in several EU nations too. But people like to look at
'totals' in countries with 1/5th to 1/50th the US population.
You're guilty of US Media
'surveys.' Here's a great example of this
'problem' from NPR itself ...
Heck, if we used the
'more guns means more crime,' then the US should have 100x as many, compared to EU and other nations that don't allow gun ownership much at all.
France itself has extremely stringent laws, and still has nearly as many as us per-capita. They also have a heavy migrant population that is guilty of such, and repeat offenses, much like us.
The US' main issue is the 'war on drugs.' Virtually all of the top 20 nations in per-capita gun crime (most much higher than the US) are countries south of the US that 'feed' our drug habit.
It's just like the border ... either $5K to cross or, for most people, they have to 'run' drugs, guns or humans across in lieu of payment. And that only feeds more organized crime.
And what
'new laws' would prevent such?
Banning guns only takes away deterrence. How would you like organized crime to run amok in your neighborhood like the inner cities?!
Florida is only 25th per-capita among states, but has heavy organized crime compared to other states. It's only kept outside of most neighborhoods because of deterence.
