Mass Shootings: Cultural Values Are the Problem, Not Guns

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Mass Shootings: Cultural Values Are the Problem, Not Guns
By Priscila Guinovart

After every shooting in the United States, an international group of puritans appears, advocating for the prohibition of gun ownership, as if that measure were a solution to what is a much deeper problem: the access to weapons.

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In Uruguay, a country where the possession of weapons is highly regulated, there are proportionally more deaths from firearms than in the United States (number of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants). Switzerland, meanwhile, the third most armed country in the world, and where the acquisition of weapons is legal and (46 out of every 100 inhabitants have weapons,) does not have mass shootings or an alarming number of firearm deaths.

It is time to conclude that the cultural factor is determinant for the type of tragedy in which the United States seems to be, for the moment, submerged.

Read more at: https://panampost.com/priscila-guinovart/2018/02/20/shooting-massacres-cultural-values-problem-not-guns/