(May 8, 2023 at 3:40 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 8, 2023 at 3:12 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: I was talking about Norway and Macedonia. I don't know how those mass shooters there get their guns. I suspect the vast majority of them get them illegally.
Well, in both Norway and North Macedonia, people are legally allowed to purchase and own firearms, so there’s probably not much need for a black market.
This is interesting:
The firearm-related death rate in the US (including suicides, accidents and mass shootings) is 13.6 per 100 000. In North Macedonia, it’s 0.8. In Norway, it’s 0.1.
Boru
Since around 50% of mass shooters in the US get their guns illegally, and it's a lot easier to legally acquire a gun in the US than in Norway or North Macedonia, I'd expect that the vast majority of mass shooters in Norway and North Macedonia get their guns illegally.
Yeah, mass shootings make a tiny proportion of total gun-related deaths. Most of the gun-related deaths are suicides. But we were talking about mass shootings. The Twitter post you posted a screenshot of claimed that the rest of the world (countries other than the US) don't have mass shootings. Which is blatantly false, Macedonia and Norway have more mass shootings per capita.
