How countries around the world have responded to mass shootings

As in other cases, calls for strong gun-control measures have followed in the wake of the Texas attack, along with an outpouring of anger and grief on social media.Many people around the world are once again asking the same question: Why won’t America take steps to end gun violence?From the United Kingdom to New Zealand, here are the policy changes some countries have implemented after their own mass shootings.In August 1987, Michael Robert Ryan gunned down 16 people in Hungerford, England. Police spent years cracking down on illegal gun ownership.Gun violence peaked in 2005 and gradually declined in the years since.Relatives of those who died in Britain’s mass shootings have said their experiences could help the United States reckon with gun-control legislation.“Eyes are going to be on Dunblane, and we don’t need the eyes on Dunblane anymore,” Jack Crozier, whose 5-year-old sister Emma was killed in the massacre, said at an anniversary event in March 2021. “Few Australians would deny that their country is safer today as a consequence of gun control,” Howard wrote.U.N. leader denounces Buffalo mass shooting as ‘vile act’ of racist violenceIn March 2019, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, opened fire at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and killed 51 Muslim worshipers with weapons that included an AR-15-style rifle.