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There Are Fewer School Shootings Now Than During the 1990s

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Austrian economics? Cazzelino I've been begging you to get help. From a Cioccaro to a Calabrese.

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The US has had 57 times as many school shootings as the other major industrialized nations combined.
School shootings are a reality in America, an average of one a week just this year alone.

There have been at least 288 school shootings in the United States since January 1, 2009. These figures include shootings on school grounds involving at least one injury.
But how does the US compare with other countries in the world?
That's difficult to ascertain because very little research exists to quantify that.
For the purposes of this analysis, we followed the criteria below -
The scope: First, we looked at the G7 countries -- the countries with the largest advanced economies in the world.
The countries are Canada, the US, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, the UK.
The time period: From January 1, 2009 to May 21, 2018.
The definition: The parameters we followed in this count are -
Shooting must involve at least one person being shot (not including the shooter)
Shooting must occur on school grounds
We included gang violence, fights and domestic violence (but our count is NOT limited to those categories)
We included grades K through college/university level as well as vocational schools
We included accidental discharge of a firearm as long as the first two parameters are met
The analysis: For US stats, CNN reviewed media reports and a variety of databases including those from the Gun Violence Archive and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. For international stats, we looked at local and national media reports.
The caveat: Reporting on non-fatal school shootings is not always available. There may be additional school shootings with injuries that did not make it into the newspaper or digital publications, and therefore aren't counted in databases that rely on media reports. This is true for shootings in the US and overseas.
What we found:
There have been at least 288 school shootings in the United States since January 1, 2009.
That's 57 times as many shootings as the other six G7 countries combined.
Next, we wanted to broaden our list out to include some countries that were mentioned in a few of the viral posts that were going around this weekend.
In some of the incidents, the casualty count is very high (the Peshawar siege; the Kenya attack). But when it comes to the frequency of attacks, the US still leads by a wide margin.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd/index.html
 

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And when a shooting does happen getting national exposure, I'm pretty sure Americans are 57x more stubborn to keep gun laws and availability as loose as can be.

One thing I am 100% confident for such "brushed off" gun control is image.

Americans love to show off how big and powerful they are. And if the government caves in and changes laws to protect it's citizens (babysitting) like other countries with tougher gun laws, it shows the people are uncontrolled losers who needs government babysitting.

And no American citizen or government ever wants to show the world they need help.
 

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And when a shooting does happen getting national exposure, I'm pretty sure Americans are 57x more stubborn to keep gun laws and availability as loose as can be.

One thing I am 100% confident for such "brushed off" gun control is image.

Americans love to show off how big and powerful they are. And if the government caves in and changes laws to protect it's citizens (babysitting) like other countries with tougher gun laws, it shows the people are uncontrolled losers who needs government babysitting.

And no American citizen or government ever wants to show the world they need help.
They don't give a shit what the rest of the world thinks about their gun laws.
 

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And when a shooting does happen getting national exposure, I'm pretty sure Americans are 57x more stubborn to keep gun laws and availability as loose as can be.

One thing I am 100% confident for such "brushed off" gun control is image.

Americans love to show off how big and powerful they are. And if the government caves in and changes laws to protect it's citizens (babysitting) like other countries with tougher gun laws, it shows the people are uncontrolled losers who needs government babysitting.

And no American citizen or government ever wants to show the world they need help.
There are over 330 million people in the USA. The chances of getting shot by nutcase is practically zero.

What gun laws would you change?
 

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There are over 330 million people in the USA. The chances of getting shot by nutcase is practically zero.

What gun laws would you change?
As a start, how about look at what laws the other G20 countries have?

If the US has 57x more school shootings than all other G7 countries combined, something isn't working in the US.
 

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There are over 330 million people in the USA. The chances of getting shot by nutcase is practically zero.

What gun laws would you change?
The fact is that there were 288 shootings since 2009. Try telling the family members of those victims that the chances of getting shot by a nutcase is practically zero.
But anyway using that logic then we can say that the terror threat in the USA is practically zero. So you better mention that to Trump!!
 

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There are over 330 million people in the USA. The chances of getting shot by nutcase is practically zero.
So your message is "play the odds?" Tell that to the victim's family and friends of those killed by nutcases this year, and last year and the year before...

They clearly have a problem.
 

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There are over 330 million people in the USA. The chances of getting shot by nutcase is practically zero.

What gun laws would you change?
It comes down to this. During an interview for the latest one a student was asked the usual "did you ever expect this to happen here?" Question.

The difference was this young lady answered yes. Much to the shock of the reporter expecting the usual sobby answer.

When your kids don't think school is safe anymore something is very wrong.
 

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There are over 330 million people in the USA. The chances of getting shot by nutcase is practically zero.

What gun laws would you change?
You're just as dead if you're shot by a spurned lover, a careless hunter, an infant playing with 'the toy-gun' she found, a nervous householder you asked for help, gang-bangers who get you in their crossfire, another driver who din't like your style, an angry spouse or partner, someone who "didn't know it was loaded", …, … The biggest part of the American Gun Problem is just how many and how common they are, making them a frequent cause of accidental death and injury and the most readily available tool to express anger or power.

But, responding to you limited concern about insane people with guns, I'd change any and all laws that allow legal purchase or possession of guns without a background check which included a mental health assessment. Of course any license then granted would have to be periodically renewed by a similar process. At least your teensy bit of the problem would begin to be addressed.

Too bad you didn't ask about the USA's dysfunctional healthcare and community-resource 'systems' that might actually help those people before they degenerated into nutcases. But every little bit of progress helps.
 

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You know it's bad when they ask a student at a high school if they ever thought a shooting could occur there and they say Yes, I expect it to happen.

Sad.
 
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