US versus the rest

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The United States has a rate of gun violence 18 times higher than the average rich country. Does that mean it has 18 times the rate of mental disorders? Texas has almost triple the rate of gun deaths as the state of New York — yet Texas doesn’t have three times as many mentally ill people as New York. All these statistics can have the effect of deadening our sensibilities to what is going on in the United States. But let me try one last set to try to jolt us all into awareness. Every day in America, more than 200 people are wounded by guns; 120 are killed by them. Of these 120, 11 are children and teens. The leading cause of mortality among children in America is now death by a gun. 

There’s no mystery about why the U.S. has so many gun deaths

• UK culturally most comparable to the US but it has 100x less gun deaths per 100K population. Does the US have 100x the rate of mental disorders than the UK?
  
• UK (as well as Australia's) rate of gun deaths declined a lot after stricter laws were introduced after a couple of mass shootings.