no matter which side of the arguement you are on, you are sure to be able to find statistics to suite your point of view. case in point, brazil. with close to 200,000,000 million people, they have had over 30,000 homicides a year depending on what stats you look at. south africa also has an extremely high amount of gun related murders and both of those countries have extremely strict firearms laws. russia, mexico, columbia, jamaica, burma, ditto for them.

i don't think that anyone would disagree that the overwhelming majority of firearms related homicides are directly related to the drugs trade, so that has to be looked at. as unpopular as it is to say, mass shootings are a very slim % of the total murders in this country, and before anybody infers i'm heartless, my mother works as a teachers aid in a school so i take these incidents very seriously.