Still yet another reason to get rid of the guns. Oh, getting rid of guns is inflammatory and politically dangerous. But, watching the death toll, no problem.

1 August 2013 Last updated at 19:34 ET

By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC World Service

 

Shifts in climate are strongly linked (click here) to increases in violence around the world, a study suggests.

US scientists found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders, as well as group conflicts and war.
The team says with the current projected levels of climate change, the world is likely to become a more violent place.
The study is published in Science.
Marshall Burke, from the University of California, Berkeley, said: "This is a relationship we observe across time and across all major continents around the world. The relationship we find between these climate variables and conflict outcomes are often very large."
The researchers looked at 60 studies from around the world, with data spanning hundreds of years....