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.
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!
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?
What if I told you that I've lived here over 20 years and have been all over the country and never been around a shooting, not even once?
We have a gun problem, 100%, but it's not as prevalent as the news would like you to believe and unlike people that don't live here would like you to believe we're not all constantly getting shot all the time. It happens, it happens a lot and every single time it does it's unacceptable, but it's not really a concern for the vast majority of the people living here.
Anecdotally I've been mugged at knife point in UK.
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.
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?
What if I told you that I've lived here over 20 years and have been all over the country and never been around a shooting, not even once?
We have a gun problem, 100%, but it's not as prevalent as the news would like you to believe and unlike people that don't live here would like you to believe we're not all constantly getting shot all the time. It happens, it happens a lot and every single time it does it's unacceptable, but it's not really a concern for the vast majority of the people living here.
Anecdotally I've been mugged at knife point in UK.