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Where was her husband assassinated?
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I thank the universe every day that I wasn't born in the US. Something something school shootings, and that is only the start
Yeah, especially gun violence is pretty neckligible in Europe compared to the US.
i looked at moving there in the late 1990s, lived there for a year. After some time I realised I'd bought into the propaganda about this US being the greatest country on earth. I have never been back. After 9/11 they really jumped the shark.
I saw what you did there.
Eh, it's a really over-hyped issue, honestly.
In the US, you're about 5x as likely to be killed by a cop than by a mass shooter. But nobody memes all day about that for some reason...
Over-hyped issue? Would you be comfortable saying that in presence of parents that lost their kids? Gun violence is the LEADING cause of children deaths in the US. That in itself is a fact that should make you think long and hard about your country.
I'm not the person who commented earlier, but I think they were referring specifically to "mass shootings," which are more associated (at least, the perspective is) with being somewhat random. I think most Americans are more afraid of being shot at random in a mass shooting by mistake, as it would be out of their control.
Separately, gun violence as a whole is a huge problem. It is typically more associated with gang and criminal activity (which are of course big problems), but many Americans feel if you avoid dangerous areas you should more or less avoid gun violence, as the mass shootings tend to (but don't always) get an incredible amount of news coverage. Additionally, many of those mass shootings are gang shootings. It's really the school shootings, mall shootings church shootings, etc that people are afraid of. And those are a real problem, though the numbers are smaller than the hype would make it seem.
That being said, other countries don't seem to have the same issue, so it's still wild to have to try downplaying the violence.