The United States has a history of mass shootings conducted with civilian firearms. This thesis answers how variations in state and federal gun legislation affect the occurrence of mass shootings...Show moreThe United States has a history of mass shootings conducted with civilian firearms. This thesis answers how variations in state and federal gun legislation affect the occurrence of mass shootings to understand what the possibilities are to resolve this issue. The statistical analysis that regresses the strictness of state gun control against the occurrence of mass shootings per state finds that there is no correlation between the variables and that state gun control is thus ineffective. We find support for this result and the ineffectiveness of current federal gun control measures in the legislative framework, legal loopholes, sheer abundance of guns, and in the underlying conditions of American gun culture and the normalization of mass shootings as a byproduct of gun rights.Show less
