Donald Trump wants to arm teachers with guns

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Ireland has one of the most restrictive gun regimes in the world, a fact I can personally attest to (no, I don't own a gun, but as part of my job I've been involved in processing a fair few applications).  It's gun death ratio (2012 figures, due to a feud between Dublin based criminal gangs that rate is a bit higher but not by that much) is 0.8 deaths per 100,000 people.

The US gun death rate in 2014, by contrast was 10.54 per 100,000.  Outside of failed states and states with tiny populations (e.g. two gun deaths per year in Iceland will massively raise the rates).

Nobody can say that the fact that it's way harder to get a gun here is the main reason why there is such a lower ratio of  people being killed by guns in Ireland than in the US.  Not without showing themselves up as massive liars anyway.

Number Of Mass School Shootings In New Zealand (a country of less than 5 million people with 1.4 million firearms in private hands)

2000:  nil
2001: nil
2002:  nil
2003:  nil
2004:  nil
2005:  nil
2006:  nil
2007:  nil
2008:  nil
2009:  nil
2010:  nil
2011:  nil
2012:  nil
2013:  nil
2014:  nil
2015:  nil
2015:  nil
2017:  nil
2018 (year to date):  nil
2019 (projected):  nil

The above figures are confounding researchers, as New Zealanders are purported to have access to violent video games and violent films.  Even more puzzling is the fact that New Zealand has mentally unstable citizens, schools that do not resemble armed caps, and teachers who do not bring firearms into classrooms.

Boru

Part of the problem is not just the firearms but the sort of firearms and how they are perceived. In the US they are fetishized, elsewhere they are a tool for hunting. Its very strange and has the rest of the world perplexed.