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Posted by: RaZorRyaN
Posted by: CND AAA Beef
Some good reading.
Here's a small sampling of the 2009 Homicides by Firearm:
Canada: 173.
Netherlands: 55.
Germany: 188.
Australia: 30.
UK: 46.
Denmark: 15.
USA: 10,300.
Columbia: 12,808.
Mexico: 8,804.
Venezuela: 11,115.
How the hell is the USA such an outlier compared to other developed countries? When your annual firearm homicides are closer to Columbia than Canada, it's pretty freaking clear that you have a serious gun violence problem.
And I hate to break it to you, but arming teachers is not going to stop school shootings. I can't comprehend how passing out 9mms to elementary school teachers can be considered a positive outcome to this horrible shooting by some people.
I might be able to answer some of your questions, such as why do we have such a high -blam!- side rate? Well yes we are a well developed nation, but that doesn't mean that ALL of the people are. Most of the people that attempt -blam!- sides are outcasts, or rejects of society who are angry, and take it out on the people who mock them, or in some cases innocent people. A good example is the columbine incident back in 2003. The two students who started the shooting were the people who were pushed around on a regular bases. So they started by shooting the kids who mocked them, and then started shooting innocent people. After they were finished, they committed suicide. There was a lesson learned from this experience, dont bully people just because they are different. Also, i agree that giving teachers guns is a terrible idea. If my eighth period teacher had a gun, then half of my class would be dead. But we've got crazy people here too. And mass shootings are significantly less frequent than in the US.