Close encounters huh? I swear its all down to gun legality...
Anyway, mapping is great thanks
Then I suppose it was a good thing that the campus had a strict "No Guns" Policy ensuring that only the shooter had a weapon.
That Mall shooting that happened recently was the same way, they had a strict "No Guns" policy preventing people with conceal and carry permits from carrying guns into the mall.
Honestly, I just did a research paper on the effects of gun control on crime is different countries and the fact is that its not how many guns or how legal guns are it is how the culture in that country perceives guns.
For instance I believe its Sweden that has a much, much higher guns / people ratio than most of the world, but they also have one of the lowest gun crime rate.
Japan on the other hand could be seen as an example of a country where gun control works, they have extremely strict gun control laws, and their gun shooting deaths are very low, so low you are more likely to be attacked with a bladed weapon than a gun. However, if you look at the history of firearms in Japan you will see that even before the laws were in place gun crime was already incredibly low before the laws were passed.
Australia recently changed their gun laws from a set of laws very similar to the US to a much stricter set of gun laws and the gun homicide rate has not really changed.
We looked at 4 different countries in depth and a whole list of countries just on the statistics for those countries and we did not really see a pattern develop in either direction (Strong Gun laws -> Low Gun crime) (Strong Gun Laws -> More Gun Crime) (Lax Gun Laws -> High Gun Crime) or (Lax Gun Laws -> Low Gun Crime)
I think in order for something to change what needs to happen is not the criminalization of possessing firearms, but instead the much harder, more effective task of educating and changing the perception of the American people on firearms.