I’ll add to this that Europe has about 1.6 times the population of the US. This means that Europe has roughly one school shooting for every 12 incidents in the US when corrected for population.
Cos it is always happening in USA and the response is always T&P
So saying it not a problem because you show some events across multiple centuries on one Wikipedia page for one continent doesn’t change the issue that the USA is facing on a daily basis. The meme is just a daily reminder.
Anywhere else in the world has an incident where children get murdered in school and they do something. Largely, what they do serves to make children safer.
I notice. Even on this forum many people seem to go “This is OUR problem! You euro’s have no idea what you’re talking about and we shouldn’t work together on resolving it” 😕
Uh, no. It’s nowhere near the same level of problem in other countries as it is here. Trying to “what about Europe” as a gotcha isn’t trying to solve the issue, it’s diminishing the reality that the USA has a fundamentally flawed issue around gun rights and fun control, and we pay for that problem with too many dead kids.
How does pretending this epidemic ISN’T unique to the US solve the problem?
Name any other country that has anywhere near the amount of shootings we have in a year. Fuck, name one that has a quarter or a tenth of what we have year after year.
Don’t let your misplaced pride in the US blind you to a very unique problem that we have.
How does the meme, or pretending it’s unique to the US, help to resolve the problem?
None? This is Lemmy, not parliament or whatever US call that thing.
The scale and frequency is unique to the US.
I’ll add to this that Europe has about 1.6 times the population of the US. This means that Europe has roughly one school shooting for every 12 incidents in the US when corrected for population.
Y’all almost seem proud of it, to the point that acknowledging other places can have the same problem, is anger inducing?
Cos it is always happening in USA and the response is always T&P So saying it not a problem because you show some events across multiple centuries on one Wikipedia page for one continent doesn’t change the issue that the USA is facing on a daily basis. The meme is just a daily reminder.
Hi, what is “T&P”?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_and_prayers
Oh, of course. Thanks.
Thoughts and prayers
Ah, yes.
Anywhere else in the world has an incident where children get murdered in school and they do something. Largely, what they do serves to make children safer.
In America you do literally nothing
It’s unique to the US because we aren’t trying to mitigate.
I notice. Even on this forum many people seem to go “This is OUR problem! You euro’s have no idea what you’re talking about and we shouldn’t work together on resolving it” 😕
Uh, no. It’s nowhere near the same level of problem in other countries as it is here. Trying to “what about Europe” as a gotcha isn’t trying to solve the issue, it’s diminishing the reality that the USA has a fundamentally flawed issue around gun rights and fun control, and we pay for that problem with too many dead kids.
It is unique to the US. Other places have 2 or more orders of magnitude fewer shootings.
And knowing this does help you figure out how to solve the problem.
How does pretending this epidemic ISN’T unique to the US solve the problem?
Name any other country that has anywhere near the amount of shootings we have in a year. Fuck, name one that has a quarter or a tenth of what we have year after year.
Don’t let your misplaced pride in the US blind you to a very unique problem that we have.