We're #1 and Yeman's #2 - And here's the reason why
Americans make up about 4.4 percent of the global population but own 42 percent of the world’s guns. From 1966 to 2012, 31 percent of the gunmen in mass shootings worldwide were American, according to a 2015 study by Adam Lankford, a professor at the University of Alabama.
Adjusted for population, only Yemen has a higher rate of mass shootings among countries with more than 10 million people — a distinction Mr. Lankford urged to avoid outliers. Yemen has the world’s second-highest rate of gun ownership after the United States.
Worldwide, Mr. Lankford (leader of Un. of Alabama study) found, a country’s rate of gun ownership correlated with the odds it would experience a mass shooting. This relationship held even when he excluded the United States, indicating that it could not be explained by some other factor particular to his home country. And it held when he controlled for homicide rates,
suggesting that mass shootings were better explained by a society’s access to guns than by its baseline level of violence.
Article ends on a mournful and despairing note:
“In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate,” Dan Hodges, a British journalist, wrote in a post on Twitter two years ago, referring to the 2012 attack that killed 20 young students at an elementary school in Connecticut.
“Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.”
In other words, it's the number of guns, stupid people
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html
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