> Switzerland, the poster child argument of gun culture enthusiasts saying "but also they all have guns" had zero such events America has 38 times the populati

> Switzerland, the poster child argument of gun culture enthusiasts saying "but also they all have guns" had zero such events America has 38 times the population of Switzerland. If Switzerland was equally as dangerous you'd expect them to have 1/38th the events. That Wikipedia page lists 35 events. How many would we expect Switzerland to have? A bit less than 1, so either 1 or 0. That matches the observed data. > And nobody cares about the exact number anyway outside the "nah we're fine" group, indeed they just want it safer. Maybe they should. The chance for any student in America being killed in a school shooting is something like 1 in 10,000,000. That's around the chance of being killed by lightning. Not struck by lightning - that's a 10x more common 1 in 1,000,000 - but struck and killed by lightning. How much effort to people put into not being killed by lightning? Not much other than knowing 'don't go outside in a thunderstorm'. The risk of school shootings should give students equal alarm.