The article you linked reached a much different conclusion than your comment suggests.<p>Per the article, the United States &quot;tops the charts&quot; only in number of deaths by mass shooting. In terms of death per capita (a slightly more meaningful, but still largely meaningless metric) the US falls from the number one spot to the number 4 spot among the 11 countries studied.<p>But the primary flaw with studies relating mass shootings is that they almost always start with the assumption that guns are the root cause.<p>A more appropriate metric is deaths per capita for mass <i>killings</i>.<p>It is a tautology that were guns are more readily available, mass killers will more often choose to use guns; but the implication that because guns are available there will be more mass killings is demonstrably false. Mass killers have already chosen to kill. In the absence of easily available guns, they most often seem to use arson.