| Slarvax said: How come you never hear about mass shootings in Canada? Or even most of Europe? What kind of magic do they use to avoid all that? :o |
Canada's population is a tenth of the U.S. The same is true for "most of Europe" if you are thinking in terms of individual countries rather than Europe as a whole. They are also more socially stable places than the U.S (for now.) You still hear of mass shootings in Europe though. The other day I was thinking about this as well, one never really hears about subway bombings in the U.S, but in the early to mid 2000's there were tons of them around Europe. It is also interesting how 50 people dead is the largest mass shooting deathcount in the U.S, while Europe in recent years has had much higher death-counts (Breivik's attack, last year's Paris attacks, etc.) I think it is possibly because the targetted areas are much more centralized and dense than in the U.S, and possibly a matter of efficiency in law enforcement (is it not true that most European police are unarmed or does that vary greatly by country?)
An interesting way to look at things, is to compare death rate by mass shootings per capita. The U.S actually doesn't rank that high, even if the shootings are more numerous in the U.S than elsewhere. One must remember how big the U.S really is, and how many decently sized cities there are.
