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It's easier to get guns in many EU countries than many US states.
And do those states have fewer mass shootings?
No. California has some of the strictest gun laws and leads the country in mass shootings. New York also has ridiculously strict gun laws and is up there on the mass shootings count as well.
(Though also let's be real the shootings are just correlated with large dense populations in the current US climate, not if the state is red/blue. So let's drop the gun law security theatre, there are a million factors that influence gun violence more than restricting the rights of everybody.)
Citation needed because last I checked California's gun death rate is lower than average.
The topic was mas shootings, not gun deaths. Mass shootings are an extremely small percentage of all firearm deaths. And even that statistic doesn't matter, because MOST gun deaths aren't murders, they are suicides or accidents.
Source for mass shootings though since you asked
https://www.statista.com/statistics/811541/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-state/
No, only like Switzerland it is. And there you can't even buy ammo.
Look up gun laws in Austria, the Czech Republic, etc. Hell when I was in Budapest the military was literally set up in a park giving civilians dry fire training just in the middle of a fair in a park.