Low gun ownership makes school shootings 1,500 times rarer

In Turkey, the rarity of school violence is a direct byproduct of a dramatic policy shift that followed the turn of the millennium. After a landmark incident in 1999, the government implemented strict arms curbs that eventually slashed civilian gun ownership by sixty percent. Today, only two percent of the population owns a firearm, and the result is a landscape where school shootings are roughly 1,500 times rarer than in the United States.