How US gun culture stacks up with the world | CNN

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : In 2019, about 68% of firearms seized by law enforcement in Mexico and sent to the ATF for identification were traced back to the US.
51% : But critics of the Second Amendment say that right threatens another: The right to life.
51% : Some nations have high gun ownership due to illegal stocks from past conflicts or lax restrictions on ownership, but the US is one of only three countries in the world where bearing (or keeping) arms is a constitutional right, according to Zachary Elkins, associate professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the Comparative Constitutions Project.
51% : 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.
50% : The rate in the US is eight times greater than in Canada, which has the seventh highest rate of gun ownership in the world; 22 times higher than in the European Union and 23 times greater than in Australia, according to Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) data from 2019.
49% : Other countries are also showing promising results after changing their gun laws.
48% : The US is the only developed country where mass shootings have happened every single year for the past 20 years, according to Jason R. Silva, an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at William Paterson University.
46% : In New Zealand, gun laws were swiftly amended after the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings.
46% : To enable international comparisons for this story, we also used data compiled by Jason R. Silva, an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at William Paterson University.
45% : Yet, despite the thousands of lost lives in the US, only around half of US adults favor stricter gun laws, according to the recent Pew survey, and political reform remains at a standstill.
42% : America's relationship to gun ownership is unique, and its gun culture is a global outlier.
42% : In contrast to the US, Guatemala and Mexico's constitutions facilitate regulation, with lawmakers more comfortable restricting guns, especially given concerns around organized crime, he said.
42% : And that partisan divide is reflected in the population as well, with 80% of Republicans - and 19% of Democrats - saying gun laws in the country are either about right or should be less strict, according to the April Pew survey.
36% : Britain tightened its gun laws and banned most private handgun ownership after a mass shooting in 1996, a move that saw gun deaths drop by almost a quarter over a decade.
34% : Less than two weeks after Australia's worst mass shooting, the federal government implemented a new program, banning rapid-fire rifles and shotguns, and unifying gun owner licensing and registrations across the country.

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