why is it that america, has more school shootings than any other country? especially england, where im from...

Question

i mean, america is supposed to be the greatest country in the world

Answer 1

too many guns

Answer 2

I am sure we have more shootings because guns are legal here. What you need to look at isn't deaths by shooting, but deaths over all. You might not have many shootings, because guns have been outlawed, but you still have them. That alone tells you that banning guns doesn't work. All your government has done is made sure that you are unable to defend yourself the next time someone comes at you with a gun, knife or bat. The next thing you have to look at is how much the violent crime rate has jumped in your country and every other country that has banned guns. Besides your interpretation of greatest is a bit off. Do you mean greatest or safest. Their is a big difference. We are the greatest country in that we enjoy more freedoms than any other citizens in the world. Which basically means that we have choice in our lives that you and others do not. I personally would rather live in a country where I make the decision that pertain to my life instead of the governmeant making the decision for me. That is what is ment when it is said that America is the greatest country in the world. What you and others do not realize is that their will always be people who are going to kill and take advantage of others no matter how many restrictions you place on societies as a whole, but that isn't reason to restrict the ones who don't. I honestly feel sorry for you, because you don't know what you are missing. Your government hasn't given you that choice!

Answer 3

Isn't that "greatest country in the world" propaganda a bit over the top?

Some say that America has the most shootings because of violence depicted on TV. I believe it's something like 4 murders per night. Some say that it is because of the alienation of our youth wherre the snobbish, spoiled kids snub the others. Some even wilder speculation is that it's a huge black ops operation conducted by the CIA to study human mind control and the control and prediction of public opinion.

So I guess you get to pick whatever cause you believe is most likely. Personally, I like the extreme options because they are so interesting. I think hollywood is a bit ahead of the CIA and the CIA is just learning from the great action adventure movies that hollywood is dreaming up. It's too bad the CIA doesn't give more input to the screen writers.

Answer 4

We took God out of school remember... that whole "love thy neighbor" and "thou shalt not kill" thing was seen as irrelevant and oppressive to a few of those that didn't believe in it. And this was not a typical school shooting by an American kid, he was an adult, and not an American.

And it still is the greatest country in the world... Even though I dissagree with a lot that has changed here and needs to be changed, I still think I'm very fortunate to live in such a great country and have the freedoms and diversity we all share. The US will pull through this, and find a way to be better from it just like after 9/11. It's unfortunate that it takes such a tragedy for all of us to put our differences aside for a bit and show some unity...

Answer 5

Well, Mr. english person, America was founded by frontiersmen, along lines and on principles that frontiersmen thought were important.

A lot of very long winded, high flown type speeches were made here, are still made here, on the importance of such things as individual enterprise, intitiative, responsbility, resourcefulness and so on.

All of which, in practice, amounts to this: Anyone too maladjusted to live in civilized society should at all times be free to emigrate to the adjacent frontier, do whatever he has to do to the aboriginal or otherwise foreign inhabitants to get rid of them, and appropriate their land for a considerable profit. In the process he is supposed to become a good citizen.

The appeal of this ingenious scheme should be obvious. Everybody who survives the process gets everything he wants. And it worked flawlessly for hundreds of years. England was rid of huge numbers of worthless individuals, as was New England in turn, and so on.

Alas there is only 1 minor flaw: What happens when the frontier runs out?

Here in modern America we see the ongoing result: A people forced to try actually try and live by the long winded, high flown, frontier rhetoric of their ancestors, but without the frontier.

And you wonder why they go crazy.

I guess it should be mentioned that America's crime rates are typically compared with those of other countries on a per capita basis, to compensate for differences in population size, and that America's crime rates are, famously, much higher than those of most developed nations, by that measure. That's why anybody bothers to comment about it. But hey, everybody knows that already, right?

Answer 6

I don't know. But with this particular shooting, the problem seems to have been twofold:
1) It is extremely difficult to commit a mentally ill person for involuntary treatment, no matter how severely psychotic he is.
2) The database available to gun sellers does not give them the names of persons who suffer from severe mental illness and are therefore not supposed to buy guns.
I don't know what the laws are in the UK about these issues.
Correcting these deficiencies in the laws would help a lot, but nothing is guaranteed.

Answer 7

Look at the body count and you will see how wrong you are in condemning America. The islamofascists who attacked the school in Beslan Russia killed many more children.
The killer at Virginia Tech was not an American, and he signed his suicide note "Ismael Ax", a muslim reference to human sacrifice. Stop blaming America. Wake up and smell the jihad.

Answer 8

Drugging of kids is the effect...every time a kid is being a kid..the parents can't handle it and call it ADD and ADHD. This never happened until kids were drugged and the fact is all the shootings the kids were on some sort of drug to make them controllable.

Answer 9

It is the greatest country, not the most perfect.

Answer 10

Take a look at how many square miles the US encompasses compared to Britain and then compare the populations of the two countries. Therein lies your answer.

Answer 11

I guess one reason is the American Law....it's relatively easy to get your hands on a gun there.

The laws in Britain, as in The Netherlands, where I'm from, are much, much more stricter as to who is allowed to own a gun......carrying a gun with you is out of the question all together. (by the people, I mean)

Edit to ad: Just curious...why a thumbs down??
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