International Court of Justice & Chill anyone?

This issue is about justice, or the lack of it for Rohingya in Myanmar and Afghanistan. Plus: What's the United States' real problem with gun violence? And: Angola's former president died, Islamic extremism killed at least 12 people in Togo, a court in France jailed another a**hole responsible for the genocide in Rwanda and Japan is still paying for the Fukushima disaster,and so much more.

New report: The United States' problem with gun violence goes beyond mass shootings

The United States has a huge gun problem. The Washington Postwanted to know just how huge this problem really is and who it affects the most. The results are in: The country's problem with gun violence goes beyond mass shootings. Gun deaths happen nearly every day inside homes, outside bars and on the streets of many cities.

Why this matters:
There are some 400 million guns in the United States aka there are more guns than people living there.

Tell me more:
Journalists at The Washington Post -- Mark Berman, Lenny Bernstein, Dan Keating, Andrew Ba Tran and Artur Galocha, with illustrations by Álvaro Valiño -- wanted to look beyond the headlines and ask the question: There have been over 300 mass shootings in this country so far in 2022. Why?

And?
Before I share their conclusion, here are three facts you should know:

• Never have so many people in the U.S. bought this many guns as they did in 2020 and 2021. Some 43 million were purchased, and this is only the official number. The data does not capture weapon sales from private sellers at gun shows or online marketplaces.
• At the same time, gun deaths in those years hit the highest level since 1995, with more than 45,000 people dying each year.
• About 60 percent of the gun deaths in the United States each year are suicides.

To me, the answer seems obvious. It's guns, right?
"There is not one clear answer... but possible factors include the stress of the coronavirus pandemic, fraying ties between the police and the public, mounting anger, worsening mental strain and the sheer number of guns in America. You put all that into a pressure cooker, and you let the pressure cooker blow up," said Alex Piquero, a criminologist at the University of Miami. Still, there is little consensus. Is there more gun violence because there are more guns around? Some say: yes. A lot of people have a lot of access to guns, so fights that would have previously led to fist-fights instead escalate to gun-fights. Others also say, 'well, no, the police just doesn't solve a lot of murders, so people take matters into their own hands.'

What did the journalists find out about who is likely to pick up a gun and kill somebody?
Well, politicians keep saying, 'it's people with mental health challenges.' That's not the entire picture. "Three decades of research has established that people with mental illness are responsible for just a small percentage of interpersonal and gun violence. ... In fact, they are more likely to be victims of violence," The Washington Post journalists say.

OK, if it's not mental illness, then what?
There are so many different reasons for why someone would commit such a violent act. For example, experts say, those who are likely are people who have experienced trauma and violence during childhood, living in neighborhoods where there is a lot of violence, people who have not had/do not have access to therapy to learn how to deal with impulse or anger control. And, perhaps most of all, easy access to guns.

Who is affected by gun violence the most?
Young Black men and older White men.

• White people are six times as likely to kill themselves with guns than to be shot by others, and Black people are 17 times as likely to be...