What’s up with the fact that y’all always compare your country to the third world to make it look better, rather than comparing it to other developed nations?
In fact, even in most 3rd world countries, being poor isn’t penalized as much as in the US because you can’t be hit with random six figure medical bills
What about comparing it to the UK which has similar problems to the US? barring medical but then again the Tory party are trying to privatize the NHS so not far off
Until your kid gets shot at school, or maybe some other kids in the next city or state… and then it happens the next week at the mall, and the week after at a church, and the week after forever and ever, and you wonder how long until it’s your turn, and you think that you wouldn’t have to even consider that if you lived almost anywhere else on the planet.
Despite the point you are trying to makes, the kind of events you are describing make up a very small portion of gun violence. The majority of it is crime/gang related, or suicide. Not that that’s really any better, but schools and malls aren’t being shot up every week.
Out of all the listed shootings this year on that site, only one was a “mass shooter in a school”, the rest occurred outside school, in a parking lot or off campus at an affiliated program because of disputes or other gang/criminal activity as violence between individuals
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What’s up with the fact that y’all always compare your country to the third world to make it look better, rather than comparing it to other developed nations?
In fact, even in most 3rd world countries, being poor isn’t penalized as much as in the US because you can’t be hit with random six figure medical bills
What about comparing it to the UK which has similar problems to the US? barring medical but then again the Tory party are trying to privatize the NHS so not far off
Until your kid gets shot at school, or maybe some other kids in the next city or state… and then it happens the next week at the mall, and the week after at a church, and the week after forever and ever, and you wonder how long until it’s your turn, and you think that you wouldn’t have to even consider that if you lived almost anywhere else on the planet.
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Despite the point you are trying to makes, the kind of events you are describing make up a very small portion of gun violence. The majority of it is crime/gang related, or suicide. Not that that’s really any better, but schools and malls aren’t being shot up every week.
I’ll look into the stats, but I hear about mall/school shootings often enough that it feels like every week during the school year.
51 school shootings last year, so pretty damn close!
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2023/01
Out of all the listed shootings this year on that site, only one was a “mass shooter in a school”, the rest occurred outside school, in a parking lot or off campus at an affiliated program because of disputes or other gang/criminal activity as violence between individuals
Oh not quite bad enough for you?