Sociologic and Psychiatric Aspects of U.S. Gun Violence: A Cure For This Endemic

There are at least fifty million more guns in than people in America. The U.S. also suffers more shootings and ten times more gun deaths per-capita than any other developed country in the world1. Clearly the underlying problem is the widespread availability of weapons exclusively and efficiently designed to kill humans. These are the semi-automatic, double action handguns (E.G. Glock, Sig-Sauer, Beretta, etc.) used in homicides and suicides and the assault rifles used in mass shootings. However, upon forensic analysis virtually every event of gun violence (GV) routinely embodies societal and individual factors that made its occurrence seemingly preordained.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Commentary Source Type: research