More like every day.
350 shootings in 2023 is crazy. That’s actually so many. How tragic.
We recently had 6 mass shootings in under 48 hours!
England is more into knife attacks. Easy access to guns is the major factor in the US. With parents starting to receive prison sentences for their kids actions, we will have to see if the number starts to drop. Best solution, of course, is to get guns out of the hands of the disturbed and get them help.
The UK has fewer knife attacks per person than the US.
It’s just that there’s so much gun violence, no one talks about it.
big if true
Where does this false confidence come from?
Numbers from elsewhere in the conversation.
Just to an another source to the other comment: www.datapandas.org/ranking/stabbing-deaths-by-country
We hate our lives.
That page lists attacks in general, and not just at schools but also universities. Out of the 25 attacks listed for Germany (so since 1990), only 11 are shootings, and 14 have no deaths at all. So, you’re right, Germany does know what school schootings are.
But compare this to a total of 67 (damn that number!) in the same timeframe in the UK ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_attacks_in_the_United_Kingdom ), despite the UK containg about 20 million less people than Germany. Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn’t have a comparable list for France.
But both of those numbers just cannot compare with the US, where just the school shootings that Wikipedia lists (not all attacks, just shootings) add up to 882 over the same time frame. And its not due to higer population, the US only has about 4 times as many people as Germany.
Sorry, I realise you’re kinda just trying to say, school attacks do happen in Germay too, and you’re right. But you sent me down a rabbit hole. And the number of school shootings in Germany is so low that as a parent you can reasonably assume it won’t happen (and they are rarely big enough to land in the news), whereas in the US it seems to be something that everyone thinks about, that schols plan for, and that has a not inconsiderable chance of happening.
Edit: spelling
There is also this important but depressing website. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
Oh man no school shootings during WW2, must have been a peaceful time! / s
don’t mention ze war!
No its because everyone was on vacation!
There’s just no way to prevent this
At least monthly, on average
Since 2022, it has been at least weekly on average: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2020s)
Meme Misuse, in my Lemmy?
It’s more likely than you think.
people here really don’t know how to do memes
most of the time the meme is either 5-15+ years old or the meme format is horribly butchered
i really don’t understand why though
Because nobody gives a shit lol
Sometimes I feel like a grammar Nazi when it comes to meme use. But I just need to remember that I’m definitely right.
*day
lol yeah, right? Being able to say “every year,” would be nothing short of a miraculous improvement for us…
Imagine living in a country where having one school shooting every year would be a miraculous improvement. I really feel for the US.
More likely daily/weekly unfortunately
IIRC some days don’t have a school shooting. Not sure about weeks or months though.
Yearly school shooting? Like with camera?
It’s because we (Americans) not only hate everyone but also ourselves.
We all fucking hate ourselves, that’s no excuse.
I love myself twice per day
Uff, pace yourself! There is only one hell to get into. Once per life is totally enough. You make everyone else look lazy!
Hmmmm… It must be something else then… It’s definitely not obvious, that’s for sure.
I mean most of the world has no idea what a school shooting is. They’re an almost uniquely American phenomenon.
We’re a for-profit country. It’s like everything we have set up is to make a few people very rich. The everyday tragedies are acceptable byproducts for those who run everything.
They have school stabbings. UK & Germany have grooming gangs. Paris is the crime capital of Europe.
Please take your BS elsewhere.
Paris is the crime capital of Europe.
The city with the highest crime index in Western Europe is Marseilles (67,03) second highest is Bimingham (63,96)
Those would be the 8th and 13th place in the US. So you’d have to go through:
- Memphis (77,85)
- Detroit (72,82)
- Baltimore (71,11)
- Albuquerque (70,90)
- Saint Louis (70,12)
- Oakland (68,60) and
- New Orleans (67,92)
Before you arrive at Marseilles. Paris is at 57,88, that would be the 17th place in the US.
(Source: Numbeo)
At the same time the kind of crimes that are unusually high in Marseilles and Paris are pickpocketing and petty theft.
The crimes that are unusually high in the US are violent crimes.
You should watch less Fox News.
USA has school shootings to remind the rest of the world they do have some form of education.
The billionaires have really done a number on you guys. I live in the UK, and this dystopian view of my country being pushed by Musk etc and swallowed by people in the US is absolutely wild. Yes, there’s problems with immigration, but this idea that we’re some sort of Islamic state, overrun by knife-weilding jihadist peados is laughable. Source: I’VE FUCKING LIVED HERE FOR 48 YEARS.
See my other comment (sorry, Voyager seems to generate weird share links).
While violence at schools does exist in Europe, the numbers just don’t compare to the US.
And don’t forget! The US has stabbings too, its just that you have so many shootings that a stabbing won’t make the news.
Also, what are “grooming gangs”?
Grooming gangs are paedophile rings that groom children. They became a cause celebre of the right because an extremely prominent case in the UK concerned one that was uncovered which consisted mainly of Asian and British-Asian men targeting white girls. Those white girls were, initially, dismissed by the police with the typical reasons. When concerns were raised, there was a reluctance to treat them seriously because those with responsibility were worried about perceptions of racism due to the race of those accused.
In the end, the police did investigate and got convictions. I just described the Rotherham case, I think there was another with some similarities.
I’ve never heard any international comparisons, and as far as I remember, white people commit more child sexual abuse in the UK per capita than other races, but obviously that doesn’t stop the right wing weaponising it.
So the real perpetrators of injustice were the misogynist cops we found along the way.
I don’t think that would be an accurate summary of a situation in which children were groomed and raped, nor one in which the police eventually did their job, to be honest.
Regardless of the right wing weaponisation, going the complete opposite way on everything they’re saying about it is a serious mistake.
The US doesn’t only have stabbings too, it has more per capita than the UK.
In addition to the gun murder disparity
German here: what are grooming gangs supposed to be?
One of the biggest risks for local students are the crumbling school buildings.
The post is about what’s wrong with ________. Not what’s wrong with schools in ________.
yes, but what are “grooming gangs”?
A racist idea about immigrants while most grooming and assault happens inside families and other close relations. Thats for germany i dont know about others. Its a dogwhistle used by white man to hide their own horrifying crimes.
You elected your grooming gang?
