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How US gun control compares to the rest of the world

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageGuns don't stop gun violence. Rebecca Cook/Reuters

The Charleston murders have renewed the sporadic debates over whether gun control might have prevented this latest of tragedies.

To quote President Obama the day after the shooting in the AME Church,

“At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this kind of mass...

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