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Compared to the US there is barely is any crime! There are no school shootings yet here there's almost one a day it seems. Seemed as safe as Norway where moms

Compared to the US there is barely is any crime! There are no school shootings yet here there's almost one a day it seems. Seemed as safe as Norway where moms leave their babies out in their carriages bundled up for fresh air while they go into their house to clean. A mom who did that here would be possibly arrested So Iceland is paradise if you are a tired of seeing all the crime in America. I didn't know it was that bad here til my dates (locals) I met and talked with at one of the neighborhood family bathhouses pointed it out. How scared they are of going to the US. Which I replied it's not that bad not everyone has a gun yet once I was home I had a crazy gunman who shot police hiding in the woods of my backyard and we were told to shelter in place. Sure that's not happening in Iceland cause even and only police only have stun guns!

slaw 4y ago
Compared to US, Iceland is tiny.
jdminhbg 4y ago
> There are no school shootings yet here there's almost one a day it seems. I promise you it's very easy to find sub-400k person communities in the US that have never had one either.
- martyvis 4y ago
  You can only use that trick so much. The island I live on (Australia) has a population of 25.6 million (1/13th) of the USA yet also seems to get on the fine with no school shootings (and very restricted gun ownership)
  - jdminhbg 4y ago
    I'm not trying to use a trick. It's just pointless to compare Iceland to a country that's three orders of magnitude bigger. Lots of bad things and lots of good things happen in the US that don't happen there. Places like Australia or Germany or Mexico could be more reasonably compared to the US.
    - estebank 4y ago
      Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2020s_mass_shootings_in_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2020s_mass_shootings_... with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2020s_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2020s_mass_shootings_...
    - paul7986 4y ago
      And the guy who replied to you is saying the same thing as in Iceland and Australia restrictive gun laws to outlawing them and school shootings aren't happening in either place. That says something ..America isn't doing the right thing cause those with the most money and their conflicting views rule over stopping the insanity that almost everyone in Iceland I spoke to said America is scary place cause of our guns/school shootings. I now agree yet before putting mysejf in another culture didn't care too much that's just how it was here to me previously. This video from American idol where a contestant went thru a school shooting further hits home for me ..school shootings are a pathetic part of American life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slhz5ZM2x94&t=310s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slhz5ZM2x94&t=310s
  - throwaway2037 4y ago
    Yes, and we can thank Prime Minister John Howard for outlawing assault rifles after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.
paul7986 4y ago
I said there's one in America almost every day… There was one last week I'm pretty sure and definitely there was one in Nashville yesterday at a Christian school. Iceland is indeed tiny, and that's a benefit… Too many people in America with too many conflicting views to ever make it safe like Iceland I have never been out of the US and experience another culture… It was eye-opening
aix1 4y ago
> There are no school shootings yet here there's almost one a day it seems. To those saying "but Iceland is tiny" and "there are 400k-person communities in the US with no history of school shootings", here are the stats for countries with the most school shootings (total incidents Jan 2009-May 2018)[1]: United States — 288 Mexico — 8 South Africa — 6 Nigeria & Pakistan — 4 Afghanistan — 3 Brazil, Canada, France — 2 Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, & Turkey — 1 Calculating per-capita numbers is left as an exercise for the reader. [1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-shootings-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-sh...

slaw 4y ago

Compared to US, Iceland is tiny.

jdminhbg 4y ago

> There are no school shootings yet here there's almost one a day it seems. I promise you it's very easy to find sub-400k person communities in the US that have never had one either.

martyvis 4y ago
You can only use that trick so much. The island I live on (Australia) has a population of 25.6 million (1/13th) of the USA yet also seems to get on the fine with no school shootings (and very restricted gun ownership)
- jdminhbg 4y ago
  I'm not trying to use a trick. It's just pointless to compare Iceland to a country that's three orders of magnitude bigger. Lots of bad things and lots of good things happen in the US that don't happen there. Places like Australia or Germany or Mexico could be more reasonably compared to the US.
  - estebank 4y ago
    Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2020s_mass_shootings_in_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2020s_mass_shootings_... with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2020s_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2020s_mass_shootings_...
  - paul7986 4y ago
    And the guy who replied to you is saying the same thing as in Iceland and Australia restrictive gun laws to outlawing them and school shootings aren't happening in either place. That says something ..America isn't doing the right thing cause those with the most money and their conflicting views rule over stopping the insanity that almost everyone in Iceland I spoke to said America is scary place cause of our guns/school shootings. I now agree yet before putting mysejf in another culture didn't care too much that's just how it was here to me previously. This video from American idol where a contestant went thru a school shooting further hits home for me ..school shootings are a pathetic part of American life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slhz5ZM2x94&t=310s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slhz5ZM2x94&t=310s
- throwaway2037 4y ago
  Yes, and we can thank Prime Minister John Howard for outlawing assault rifles after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.

paul7986 4y ago

I said there's one in America almost every day… There was one last week I'm pretty sure and definitely there was one in Nashville yesterday at a Christian school. Iceland is indeed tiny, and that's a benefit… Too many people in America with too many conflicting views to ever make it safe like Iceland I have never been out of the US and experience another culture… It was eye-opening

aix1 4y ago

> There are no school shootings yet here there's almost one a day it seems. To those saying "but Iceland is tiny" and "there are 400k-person communities in the US with no history of school shootings", here are the stats for countries with the most school shootings (total incidents Jan 2009-May 2018)[1]: United States — 288 Mexico — 8 South Africa — 6 Nigeria & Pakistan — 4 Afghanistan — 3 Brazil, Canada, France — 2 Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, & Turkey — 1 Calculating per-capita numbers is left as an exercise for the reader. [1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-shootings-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-sh...