consider gun violence. In the United States, people can legally purchase pistols, shotguns, rifles, and even semiautomatic weapons in some states. Whenever mass shootings occur, some people blame the shooters, reasoning that most gun owners don’t go out and shoot people, so there must be something abnormal about those shooters, such as their mental health, anger management ability, ideology, etc. But from a global perspective, it is clearly the United States that is abnormal. According to the Small Arms Survey, the number of civilian firearms per 100 persons in the United States was 120.5 in
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