05-29-2022, 09:50 AM
(05-24-2022, 08:56 PM)divmenow Wrote: ...You never see this kind of mass shootings in other countries. Why here?...
Myth 5: The United States is the only country where mass shootings happen
Just as it is untrue that mass shooters only use assault rifles and high-capacity magazines, it is also patently false to claim that the US is the only nation where mass shootings occur. The five deadliest mass shootings in world history all took place outside of the US. So did eight of the ten deadliest. So did 33 of the 50 deadliest mass shootings in world history.
What is often forgotten in the debate over mass shootings is that the United States has the third-highest population in the world. In 2016, the Crime Research Prevention Center found that when adjusted for population, the US actually ranked 12th in mass shootings per capita from 2009 to 2015.
Two years later, it analyzed data on mass shootings across the globe from 1966 to 2012 and found that while the US made up roughly 4.6% of the world’s population, it accounted for less than 1.43% of mass shooters and 2.11% of the people killed in mass shooting incidents.
Just as the United States is hardly alone in dealing with mass murders, it is also far from the worst country in the world when it comes to gun violence generally. The US actually ranks 83rd in the world in murders per capita (out of 193 UN-recognized countries), while its 5.35 murders per 100,000 residents is well below the world average of 7.03.
https://www.maciverinstitute.com/2022/05/debunking-every-major-mass-shooting-myth/
IMHO, it all starts at the home and how that child has been raised. Maybe we have a gun problem, maybe we don't. There are valid arguments from both sides, but if we take emotions and strong personal beliefs of pro-gun vs anti-gun out of the equation the common denominator in the equation is how that child has been raised from pre-birth throughout their teenage years.
In black and white terms, we have a social problem, a big social problem and there's been one for decades, Trump brought it to the surface and our nation of crazy antics has been exposed.
We've become a nation of lunatics on a mass scale.
It's a sad day when someone kills a child, maybe not on a mass shooting murdering spree, but it happens every day.