The data also suggest that many of the ways we’re currently trying to prevent gun violence are wrong-but the good news is that we now have evidence-backed solutions to do better. MYTH: We don’t know what to do to curb gun violence.įACT: Data collected by researchers about mass shootings show discernible patterns and opportunities for intervention. It’s driven principally … because we have decided to make guns readily available to almost anyone, and our interests seem to be more in protecting those who sell weapons and want to own them as opposed to the broader public.” “Most countries do not have anywhere close to the rates of homicides that we do. because America is a violent society.įACT: “Most countries don’t have a problem with fatal mass shootings,” Webster told Fox News in LA. MYTH: There are more gun deaths in the U.S. Restricting access to guns by people with a history of domestic violence could curb the occurrence of mass shootings and fatalities, the study suggested. In a study published in 2021, Geller and colleagues found that in over 68% of mass shootings, the perpetrator killed at least one partner or family member and had a history of domestic violence. MYTH: In most mass shootings, perpetrators do not know the people they kill.įACT: Nearly 70% of mass shootings involve domestic violence, Lisa Geller, MPH, state affairs advisor for the Center, told 12 News in Arizona. įixating on motives and the mental health of those who perpetuate violence distracts from more actionable approaches to reducing gun violence, Crifasi said. For one thing, mental health issues are far more common than mass shootings: More than 50% of people will be diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder at some point in their lives, according to the CDC. It’s also dangerous and irresponsible to link gun violence and mental health. īut there’s a distinction between this and a diagnosable mental health issue. MYTH: Mass shootings, like the ones in Texas and Buffalo, are the result of mental health issues.įACT: While motives in the Uvalde massacre are still unknown, “increasingly, we are seeing people who are frustrated, angry and hateful and using firearms take that out on a particular group,” Crifasi told MarketWatch.
“More people died from guns in Texas than Illinois, when suicide and accidental shootings are included,” she added. The places with weaker gun laws have higher rates of death.”
They are Mississippi, Louisiana, Wyoming, Missouri, and Alabama. But the places with the highest rates of death are not Maryland, Michigan, and Illinois. “And yes, those places … have unacceptable rates of gun homicides. gun deaths.įACT: “The common trope is that places like Baltimore or Detroit or Chicago are the reason we have so many gun deaths in this country,” Cass Crifasi, PhD ’14, MPH, the Center’s director of research and policy, told the Chicago Tribune. MYTH: Urban homicides falsely inflate statistics on U.S.
Following gun violence tragedies, familiar myths get recycled and recirculated-myths that distract from effective solutions and create smoke screens around the essential problem: We’re more interested in protecting sellers and buyers of guns than the public, Daniel Webster, ScD ’91, MPH, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, said in an interview.Ī few myths that have surfaced in recent days:
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