Fareed Zakaria: The solution to gun violence is clear - The Washington Post - 0 views
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In fact, the problem is not complex, and the solution is blindingly obvious.
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What we should be trying to understand is not one single event but why we have so many of them. The number of deaths by firearms in the United States was 32,000 last year. Around 11,000 were gun homicides.
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To understand how staggeringly high this number is, compare it to the rate in other rich countries. England and Wales have about 50 gun homicides a year — 3 percent of our rate per 100,000 people.
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