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Kasz216 on 14 December 2012
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S.Peelman said:
Kasz216 said:

I'll break it down for you.

Teacher goes into a school with a gun.  Shoots antoher teacher.   Is arrested.

That would count as a school shooting.   That kind of thing isn't as rare as you would think anywhere.

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It is shocking that you believe this is the norm in the world. This basically never happens.


It was an overly broad example... but yes.  Assaults at work happen fairly often everywhere.

More often in the US, since the US has more violent crime....

but that has less to do with guns and gun control then it does the US having a culture of being giant violent dicks.

 

If the USA and the Netherlands were to switch gun laws today, and be forced to hold them for 10 years.... I think you'd probably see very little change in violent crime.

 

Spree killings on the other hand are totally different and independent from violent crimes.  They've been seemingly more common recently. (everywhere not just the USA) despite dropping crime rates in the USA.

 

Point being... if this isn't a statistical anomoly (possible considering again, doesn't happen that often),  there is a big underlying issue to why the spree killings are suddenly happening.