Edit: Maybe we are #1 in the number of people we kill world wide?

in which the USA is far and beyond every developed nation on Earth. You're just as dead if you're murdered in a mass killing or a single victim shooting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/12/14/chart-the-u-s-has-far-more-gun-related-killings-than-any-other-developed-country/

Switzerland men keep their war weapon at home after their national service
France has 30% of the population owning weapons (mostly hunting rifles)
Barely any mass shootings

Gun ownership is just one variable. Stable social homogeneity might be another.

... because we will not have a reasonable discussions about guns and crime.

Culture has a lot to do with how guns are viewed and used in a society/country.

The extreme gun nuts really do believe a gun has talismanic powers and that the 2nd Amendment is absolute.
The extreme gun controllers hate all guns and want them pretty much abolished.

I think there is middle ground, but hardly anybody wants to go there.

But politically, Democrats, liberals and progressives would be better off, in my estimation, to start be addressing the culture aspects to at least try and move the debate to some common ground.

That's not going to happen and we will be arguing about this again next month probably.

It would be more fruitful to do proper/reasonable analysis & proposals.

Anyone who can't defend their home, take a deer, or get their jollies with a bolt-action rifle and a shotgun will be shit out of luck.

There are over 120 million semi-automatic weapons in the US.

You cannot ban that number constitutionally because the numbers alone suggest long term legal use of them, thus a band fails the reasonableness test set in Heller and makes such a ban unconstitutional.

Also, nice "homogeneity" argument. I see what you did there.

Immigration, like that of the US, generates wealth and new ideas.

But every coin, however shiny, has a flip side.

I suppose it is hardly doubtful that the richness of diversity causes tension.

Mostly creative tension, but tension nevertheless.

In the absence of a 'mass study' on mass shootings, I wouldn't discard sociological homogeneity as one of the factors in mass killings is all I ventured to say.

A chart that accurately depicts how much gun violence with multiple victims exists in each country would show the number of mass shooting incidents, not the number of victims. Norway has had exactly one such incident. I've lost track of the number in the U.S. To say that these "statistics" are disingenuous is putting it mildly.

What about the rate of young children accidentally killing or maiming themselves or others?

I'm betting the U.S. is number one in that statistic.

is John (More Guns, Less Crime) Lott's baby.

See for yourself: http://crimeresearch.org/

"CPRC was founded by Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., snip---He is currently a Fox News columnist."

I'm sure Dr Lott found a way to skew the numbers to please his FOX overlords.

because they took a particular slice in time (from the Norway mass shooter to now). This is the reason why a small number in statistics is not particularly indicative of anything. Take you time sample from one day after that mass shooting, and the Norway number would be zero. Go back twenty years and the number goes down as well.

Obama was incorrect in his statement regarding mass shootings. Other developed countries do experience them, and the rate is dependent on time frame you collect the statistic. Obviously the better statistic is the per capita homicide rate in which the U.S. is 3 to 4 times greater than the rest of the developed world.

One night at Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona an astronomer stepped out onto a high walkway. The telescope dome moved and he a knocked off the platform and fell to his death.

That year, "Astronomer" became one of the most hazardous occupations in the United States because the loss of one individual in a small group gave the profession a very high death rate.

They've actually got something of a problem with it too.

This is as bad as saying Wyoming, a state with fewer gun control laws than say, California, has a bigger problem with gun violence than California.