State by state, more gun ownership equals more mass shootings, study shows by alexnazaryan
WASHINGTON, D.C. — a growing desire to treat and potentially regulate guns the way cigarettes have been — as a dangerous, volatile element of American public life.
“States with more permissive gun laws and greater gun ownership have higher rates of mass shootings,” the researchers conclude. “There is a growing divergence in recent years as rates of mass shootings in restrictive states have decreased and those in permissive states have increased.” Just as members of the media and the American public were digesting the study, Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill were calling for federal funding of similar work.
That sentiment was echoed by most of the witnesses who testified before the subcommittee. “We know too little about gun violence and its prevention,” said Andrew Morral, a senior behavioral scientist at the Rand Corporation. He said that there was “nothing like the quality and depth” that led to the link between cigarettes and cancer. It is, of course, in the interest of groups like the National Rifle Association that no such link is ever established.
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