Yep. Any per capita study confirms it as well. In 1997, less than a year after the UK's Dunblane school massacre, the British government zipped it's collective spine back in and virtually outlawed any handguns, assault weapons and any other "automatic" firearm. And now our firearms homicide death rate is 40 times that in the UK, and the total firearms death rate including suicide, accidental, unintentional and undefined causation is close to twice that rate.
If Roof had walked into the AME Church with a butcher knife he would have hurt one, or possibly two people before the rest of the parishoners beat him unconscious, if not to death, with folding church chairs.
This country's
democratized gun carnage is not a matter of the control of gun distribution, it's a matter of mankind's unique predilection for barbarity. The only way out of it is to re-affirm the actual intent of the 2nd Amendment (or preferably repeal it altogether), and get handguns and other automatic weapons out of circulation. First offense for possession, 1 year. Second offense 10 years. Third offense, life. No excuses, no mitigating factors, no appeals. Get caught, go away.
Lib naysayers can say it's impossible. Well...it was impossible to elect a black POTUS in my lifetime. It's been impossible to elect a woman POTUS, but we may see that impossibility ending soon, and only 95 years after women got the right to vote...which was impossible for only 145 years.
It was impossible for the people to rise up against the government and force it to end the Vietnam war. The only thing that makes this impossible is too many people saying it's impossible. We outnumber the NRA gunners by millions. And...nobody wants to take away anybody's single shot break down long barreled shotgun. Anybody who would qualify for ownership under strict, unrelenting regulation, that is.