Gun violence and mass shootings — myths, facts and solutions

Editor's Note: This is a guest article by Dr. Dewey G. Cornell. Cornell University is a forensic clinical psychologist and professor of bunker education at Currie School of Education at the University of Virginia. He is also the director of U.Va. Virginia Youth Violence Project, Program Director

American guns are violent. Every day of the year, on average, at least one large shot occurred. Violence by this type of gun is especially peculiar to the United States and it is difficult to ignore the fact. Briefly, the more guns in the country, the more deaths associated with guns. With more gun control, fewer firearms are violent. Brady law requires each state to conduct an identity survey for individuals who purchase firearms, but consumers can avoid regulatory laws if loopholes for purchasing firearms exceed 2 or 3 I can do it. However, in some states laws have been enacted to prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands. There are the most stringent gun control laws in Idaho, Montana, etc., but these provinces have the most restrictive regulations in the United States.

Massive shooting is a "crazy" job and there is a general way of saying that the discriminatory policy decision of robbing guns from psychiatric patients will solve the epidemic of ongoing US gun violence. This misunderstanding is clearly inaccurate, but it still exists. Large-scale shooting cases account for less than 1% of US gun deaths (according to the definition of FBI, the number of deaths in the case is more than four people). Furthermore, in the analysis of 235 large-scale murders including the shoot in 2015, there are only 46 people with mental disorder, and elements such as "anger", "hostility", "dissatisfaction" are more general than mental health was.

Many people selling or discovering various gun violence solutions use mass shooting as a marketing tool. Despite the fact that there is little evidence to prove what can prevent large-scale shooting, while there is insufficient evidence to research on the one hand there are few studies on various gun violence. Under the cease-fire agreement, police work with community leaders to identify young people who are most likely to shoot or be shot by someone, discuss directly about the risks they face, support them, and continue shooting I commit to a tough group. In a city that recorded a ceasefire at Strike Boston, Pro Publica reported that the average number of murders per month decreased by 63% in the two years after stagnation.