America’s relationship to gun ownership is unique, and its gun culture is a global outlier.
It is then unsurprising that the US has more deaths from gun violence than any other developed country per capita.
A 2019 study published in the British Medical Journal found that US states with more permissive gun laws and greater gun ownership had higher rates of mass shootings.
A decade of gun violence, culminating with the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, prompted the Australian government to take action.
Many countries around the world have been able to tackle gun violence.
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