Mass shootings and gun violence are an epidemic in the United States like nowhere else. Gun homicides claim an average of 13,000 lives each year, and that doesn’t even count accidents or suicide, which would raise the number to a horrific 33,000 gun deaths in America every year. The rate of gun violence in America far surpasses other developed countries. And mass shootings have made their home in America; enough massacres are occurring to have nearly one for every day of the year. As one of the most powerful countries in the world, the United States should be a leader in education, economics, and world relations--not mass shootings. How the U.S. stacks up While gun violence is an issue in other countries in the world as well as the United States, America still proves to be an anomaly among its developed and high-income country counterparts. According to Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun homicide rate in America is 25 times the average of other high-income countries. So not o
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