Elementary School Shooting Leaves 27 Dead(20 children)(Shooter son of teacher)

[Kasz216]

yum123 said:

killerzX said:

wow this is sad. my heart and prayers go out to these people. this kind of people just make me so freakin mad. i hate this.

yet another shooting happens in a gun free zone. how many of these shootings have to happen before people realize how unsafe these gun free zones are.

if just the school had an armed gaurd/teacher/faculty member, they may have been able to stop this senseless tragedy.

youve got to be kidding me. this is part the reason things like this happen predominantly in america. Guns are so embedded in your culture that they lead to things like this. Guns should be banned completely. if law abiders were armed there would probably be more dead from bullets flying everywhere. only an american would have that response

It really doesn't though.

They happen more often in the US, because the US is a bigger country.  Despite the oddity of so many happening at once... these things are very rare.  Therefore a country ten times bigger then most other countries is more likely going to have a mass killing.

There have been like... maybe 60 total in the last 30 years in the USA.  

For most countries... if it happens in their country once.  They'd have a higher per capita mass murder figure then us.

For example, just Brevik in Norway means that Norway has a MUCH higher per captia mass murder figure then the US does.  Even if you count all 60 in the US.

Which isn't to say Norway is a haven and breeding grounds for Mass killers.  Just that it's such a small number, it's silly to make any generalizing conclusions.

 

To blame it on America is to ignore the truth that these things are "seemingly" on the rise... everywhere really.   Hard to say though with such a low sample size.