you may feel like there's a mass shooting in the US every time you look at the news the fact is America has more mass shootings than any other high income country in the world and that number is rising the FBI tracks mass shootings were four or more people are killed looking back over time you can see that the number of these events and the fatalities have risen [Music] dramatically and this decade is on track to follow that Trend so what is happening there's a range of complex factors that lead to mass shootings and each incident
has its own unique set of circumstances but one undeniable fact is that there are more civilian-owned guns per person here in the US than anywhere else in the world in fact when you break down the number of firearms in the US it comes down to more than one gun per person and that number is also [Music] climbing during the uncertainty of the pandemic about one in five American households reported purchasing a gun that means that now almost half of All American adults live in a house with a gun for most gun owners in the US
Firearms are not just a constitutional right they're also a way to protect themselves so what is being done to reduce mass shootings there was a ban on assault rifles in 1994 but it was dropped 10 years later when a republican-led congress failed to renew it in the year since assault rifles like the AR-15 have been used in some of the country's deadliest mass shootings from Sandy Hook in 2012 to Parkland in 2018 and yaldi in 2022 after each tragedy there are calls to action around mental health and guns some want to limit access to guns
others to arm more Americans for self-defense and what we see time and again is that after a mass shooting when politicians push for gun control it actually causes gun and ammunition sales to spike
