Donald Trump wants to arm teachers with guns

[Catholic_Lady]

There is an entire world outside of America, almost none of which have problems with mass shootings. It's not like America has to figure out this problem by itself.

Maybe America should follow the example of first world countries where no one would even contemplate having guns in schools and see how they managed it.

Or you can all just debate it as if it's an undiscovered country that you are contemplating heading into.

YOU ARE WRONG.

...a study of global mass-shooting incidents from 2009 to 2015 by the Crime Prevention Research Center, headed by economist John Lott, shows the U.S. doesn't lead the world in mass shootings. In fact, it doesn't even make the top 10, when measured by death rate per million population from mass public shootings.

So who's tops? Surprisingly, Norway is, with an outlier mass shooting death rate of 1.888 per million (high no doubt because of the rifle assault by political extremist Anders Brevik that claimed 77 lives in 2011). No. 2 is Serbia, at just 0.381, followed by France at 0.347, Macedonia at 0.337, and Albania at 0.206. Slovakia, Finland, Belgium, and Czech Republic all follow. Then comes the U.S., at No. 11, with a death rate of 0.089.

That's not all. There were also 27% more casualties from 2009 to 2015 per mass shooting incident in the European Union than in the U.S.

"There were 16 cases where at least 15 people were killed," the study said. "Out of those cases, four were in the United States, two in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom."

"But the U.S. has a population four times greater than Germany's and five times the U.K.'s, so on a per-capita basis the U.S. ranks low in comparison — actually, those two countries would have had a frequency of attacks 1.96 (Germany) and 2.46 (UK) times higher."

Source: IBD

Are we perfect? No. Are there things we need to change and improve? Yes. But all this America bashing seriously gets old. My family and I voluntarily migrated here from South America back in the 90's and we are all very privileged to be here.