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Uh, no it’s not. You think they happen less often in Russia? Syria? Venezuela?
by mwilliaams 8y ago
Uh, no it’s not. You think they happen less often in Russia? Syria? Venezuela?
- EngineerBetter 8y agoThey happen less in the UK.
- maxxxxx 8y agoThey happen less in countries with similar political and economical environment like Europe.
- benjohnson 8y agoDepends on the time frame - if we go back 100 years and include governmental killings the US seems much more peaceful.
- maxxxxx 8y agoI don't think that's relevant in a discussion about school shootings.
- smileysteve 8y ago> You think they happen less often in Russia? Syria? Venezuela? "Mass Shootings", yes. "Shoot outs", no. Venezuela, most shooting homicides are to cover up a crime, such as petty theft. These are inherently not "mass". Syria is in active civil war, these are not "mass shootings" as much as battles. They're also more shootings to achieve a political end (not to create terror towards a political end) or for the personal vendettas of the shooter.
- mwilliaams 8y agoI don’t care why an innocent person is hurt. I only care that they are. The US is pretty good compared to most other countries on the metric of people getting hurt.
- pochamago 8y agoMass is simply defined as three or more people getting shot.
- kthejoker2 8y agoI mean we can play semantics but the lone wolf shooter who shoots (many, many) people for no other reason than to shoot them is a problem almost entirely uniquely American.
- CompanionCuuube 8y agoBut the lone wolf killer who kills many people for no other reason than to kill them is not.