Over the last three years, “lone wolf”-style terrorist attacks have been on the rise. Similarly in 2015, the number of gun-related incidents in the U.S. was 53,272, with 330 of them being mass shootings. In 2016 alone, there have been 694 terrorist attacks across the world in six months, including those carried out by violent non-state actors. The sale of the same military grade rifle is banned in the U.K., for instance, and mass shootings are far fewer. Third, if you look at the mass shootings statistics, there are a disproportionately larger number of such incidents in the U.S.

Source: The Hindu June 14, 2016 19:41 UTC