How The Rest Of The World Prevents Gun Deaths

Three years ago today, Adam Lanza, stormed into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and fatally shot 20 children and six adults. There were candlelight vigils and an anguished push to change gun laws. Then, nothing. More shootings. On streets all over. In Charleston. Roseburg, Oregon. Colorado Springs. San Bernardino. More than 30,000 Americans die every year from gun violence. No other developed country comes close to that level. How do they avoid it? This hour On Point, the global picture on gun violence, and the huge American exception. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/12/14/gun-control-gun-rights-worldwide