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[–]AllisonRages [score hidden]  (65 children)
This is coming from an American, is that really not a common thing in other countries to hear about school shootings?
[–]watafuzzC'est la méga-merde. [score hidden]  (0 children)
Well we hear about America's school shootings.
[–]V_For_Veronica[S] [score hidden]  (18 children)
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html list of school shootings from 1996 to now. 22 of those are outside of the USA.
[–]AllisonRages [score hidden]  (15 children)
Geez, I didn't realize we were the main school shooting country. What the heck is our deal?
[–]alx3mLand of a thousand sauces [score hidden]  (0 children)
Toxic gun culture and shitty mental health?
[–]GrantSolarYOUR FLAIR TEXT HERE [score hidden]  (3 children)
Don't worry, I'm sure once you bring (more) guns into the classroom everything will just sort itself out :P
[–]jamdamanplease upvote [score hidden]  (0 children)
Wait, there...there couldn't possible be a correlation between the number of guns and gun violence....cough1, 2, 3, 4cough
Nah!
[–]AllisonRages [score hidden]  (0 children)
I'm just waiting for my rifle to come in /s
[–]V_For_Veronica[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)
Georgia is getting there. They're now allowed to carry them in colleges.
[–]GinSmokeLies [score hidden]  (3 children)
Our deal is that any moron or crazy person can get a gun, and any efforts to put the slightest restrictions on that are met with WAHHHHH TYRANNY
I heard a commercial on the radio this morning for a local car dealership that's giving away a gun with the purchase of any new truck. This country is fucking insane.
[–]AllisonRages [score hidden]  (2 children)
I heard a commercial on the radio this morning for a local car dealership that's giving away a gun with the purchase of any new truck. This country is fucking insane.
No down payment and lease of $249 a month?
[–]GinSmokeLies [score hidden]  (1 child)
Haha, I don't remember the specifics but could be. (Or is this a joke/reference I'm not getting?)
[–]AllisonRages [score hidden]  (0 children)
It was a joke dear =)
[–]freedomweaselweaponized ignorance [score hidden]  (0 children)
I'm not sure how rates of "school attacks" compare, but we have a shitload more guns to shoot people with.
[–]______________pewpewboomers'll go down in history as the most destructive gen ever [score hidden]  (0 children)
Deviant competitive culture.
[–]zozonde [score hidden]  (0 children)
Guns are very easy to get, mental care is (relatively) hard to get and the US has a big Gini coefficient.
[–]clarabutt [score hidden]  (1 child)
Starts with a G and ends in "easy access".
[–]IsADragon [score hidden]  (0 children)
Probably just simply access. I don't really know another western country that has such large groups of gun advocates as America.
[–]meepmorpSJW NWO FTW [score hidden]  (0 children)
Just FYI, that's a list of mass shootings, not just school shootings.
[–]NaffRespectEveryone deserves popcorn. [score hidden]  (0 children)
Gee, that's pretty embarrassing.
[–]nyanderechan [score hidden]  (11 children)
I'd refer to you the Onion article that gets trotted out every time there's another school shooting if I could - "No way to stop this happening, says only country where this regularly happens".
As a Brit, I literally couldn't tell you when the last time it happened here, if ever. Hell, if an MP hadn't been shot last year, I couldn't have told you when the last gun death was. But the US seems to have a couple school shootings a year.
[–]GrantSolarYOUR FLAIR TEXT HERE [score hidden]  (2 children)
As a Brit, I literally couldn't tell you when the last time it happened here, if ever.
Dunblane (1996) is the only one that comes to mind. A cursory google shows only that when looking for UK School Shootings.
The US is on another level. From what I can remember of the last time I was in this debate, the 40-year average from that list alone puts it around once every 16 months, but there are easily 8 in the last 5 years:
[–]nyanderechan [score hidden]  (1 child)
Dunblane (1996)
Born in 1992, so not exactly on my radar. Also in Scotland, interestingly enough, but I'd not heard of it before.
[–]lula2488 [score hidden]  (0 children)
Fun fact: Andy and Jamie Murray were both present at the school when the shooting took place.
[–]mightyandpowerful#NotAllCats [score hidden]  (6 children)
I thought Britain's gun control came about in part because of a school shooting?
[–]PrimaTumblrina [score hidden]  (0 children)
No, a shady group of (((gay-lizard))), Cultural Marxist megacucks took our guns so they could enforce Sharia Law. Don't you watch Fox News?
[–]Vried [score hidden]  (0 children)
The 1996 Dunblane shooting.
[–]AetolI have been cursed with rational thought my whole life [score hidden]  (0 children)
One of the Onion articles in question. They basically publish the exact same thing every time there's a mass shooting, with only the specifics changed.
[–]HauntedFurnitureTurboautist [score hidden]  (2 children)
It definitely isn't common in Europe. The last time we had one in the UK was in 1996. I think I remember reading there was one in France in the 2010s, and a couple in Germany and Finland in the 2000s, but that's about it.
[–]krutopatkinYou think you do, but you don't [score hidden]  (1 child)
Well the ones in France were terror attacks.
[–]AetolI have been cursed with rational thought my whole life [score hidden]  (0 children)
Beside the November 2015 attacks, there was a series of shooting in Montauban and Toulouse in 2012. It was also an islamist terror attack though.
[–]lacedemonianWARNING! Links posted by this user may lead to TV Tropes [score hidden]  (0 children)
"There's just no way to stop this" Repeats only nation where this happens.
-The Onion.
[–]jamdamanplease upvote [score hidden]  (0 children)
Like hear about their own? Kinda tough when they have far fewer/none at all. It's called substantial gun control amid differing cultures. For instance, here's a discussion of how and why Japan only suffered a total of 6 gun deaths in 2014..
[–]OscarGrey [score hidden]  (7 children)
I originally come from Poland and our schools are insanely safe besides bullying. I moved to USA when I was 13 and I was shocked to find out that middle/high school age kids join gangs, deal drugs, and get into fights in hallways. As far as I'm aware that's the case in most of Europe.
[–]AllisonRages [score hidden]  (2 children)
I wonder if you originally came from Poland...
[–]sdgoatI'm a 6'1 outgoing jacked white guy. Your feeling is wrong. [score hidden]  (1 child)
Hard to say, really.
[–]AllisonRages [score hidden]  (0 children)
I'm laughing so hard, I'm still getting messages about Poland.
[–]OscarGrey [score hidden]  (2 children)
My tablet froze lol.
[–]AllisonRages [score hidden]  (0 children)
Lol, it's okay! Had a good laugh.
[–]BRXF1 [score hidden]  (5 children)
That's honestly sad to read, I'm not even taking the piss here...
[–]AllisonRages [score hidden]  (4 children)
We really only focus on American news here, I noticed most countries tune in a lot to what is happening in America.
[–]BRXF1 [score hidden]  (3 children)
No I'm saying, it's really sad that school shooting are such a common occurrence for you (as an American) that you think that's how things are the world over.
[–]AllisonRages [score hidden]  (2 children)
Oh yeah totally, this has been a recent stereotyping (but accurate) statement about school shootings. I don't know what the heck the deal is here...
[–]BRXF1 [score hidden]  (0 children)
Εh hard to say with accuracy, personally I don't think it's as simple as "guns".
[–]CrabStarShip [score hidden]  (0 children)
You "don't know what the heck the deal is here" ? It's our insane obsession with guns and our lack of gun control.
[–]janthozo22 [score hidden]  (0 children)
Not in Australia. IIRC, the last we had was the Monash University shooting in 2002. I'm hard pressed to even think of any other mass shootings of the type that America has more frequently (i.e. victims selected indiscriminately) that post-date Port Arthur.
[–]OscarGrey [score hidden]  (0 children)
I'm originally from Poland. Our schools are insanely safe compared to American ones besides bullying. When I moved to USA at 13 I was shocked to find out that middle/high school age kids join gangs, deal drugs, get into fights and that shit like school shootings exist.
[–]hamjandy [score hidden]  (0 children)
I saw a response that implies that America is not the best at "Health Care for example. And School shootings" and was outraged. How dare he! America has some of the most deadly school shooters in the world.
And then I looked into the stats in terms of deaths and man, the US does not have particularly good school shooters. Just a lot of ineffective ones.
[–]krutopatkinYou think you do, but you don't [score hidden]  (0 children)
Germany and Finland had a bunch in the 2000s
[–]CrabStarShip [score hidden]  (0 children)
No because the rest of the world is sane and practices gun control.
[–]WatchEachOtherSleepthats ✔ some good👌👌flair right👌👌there👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔ [score hidden]  (0 children)
According to Wikipedia, since the end of The Troubles in Ireland, we've only had a single "massacre", which was an IRA bombing (so in some sense related to the Troubles). Basically all massacres in Ireland seem to be related to the (after)effects of British colonialism, so we've nothing like lone wolf school-shooting type stuff. That said, it's a small & not-that-densely-populated country, so one would expect there to be fewer at any rate.
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