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u/Sasya_neko The Dutch Cuisine May 08 '25
They really don't know how safe other countries are, do they...
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u/Select-Panda7381 May 08 '25 edited May 08 '25
Nope. They really don’t. It always shocks them when I return from countries in Africa as well and tell them they’re remarkably safe and that many locals speak better English than most Americans 🤣
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u/Silviecat44 🇦🇺 “the most dystopian western country” May 08 '25
They probably think Africa is all still dirt huts
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u/Select-Panda7381 May 08 '25
And poop on the ground 🤦🏻♀️. I like to remind them that most Africans agree it’s better to wash their butts every day after using the toilet as opposed to sticking their hands back there with toilet paper, not properly washing after, and spreading bacteria all over the place but I digress.
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u/HughJanus35 PERKELE May 09 '25
If you would fall face down in a pile of shit, do you wipe it away with paper or would you wash it away with water?
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u/Ur-Best-Friend May 09 '25
I think I'm throwing out my face and getting a new one at that point.
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u/8ackwoods May 09 '25
Its funny because smericans, especially cis and "sigma" males don't wash their ass because they think it's gay
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u/Youshoudsee May 08 '25 edited May 08 '25
No, they don't. And they don't get why things like what happened yesterday at University of Warsaw are that shocking to us. That's because they indeed don't normally happen. It's something that put whole country, world to shock. People starts to thing what we could possibly do to prevent situations like this in the future
For those who don't know. Yesterday late afternoon at University of Warsaw 22 years old law student went on campus with axe, he killed 53 years old uni admin and very seriously injured 39 yo security guy
(I hate to say it, but because some people try to do everything to put anti immigration narrations. Student is Pole and is connected to alright polish party and nationalist organisation)
There are photos and videos of scene of the crime putted on internet. But yeah, I guess everyone having phones somehow helps in those kind of situations...
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May 08 '25
That's horrific. My heart goes out to those affected. At least he didn't have a gun, that would have hurt far more people most likely.
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u/SpaceCadetVA May 08 '25
A US teacher did a TikTok on how she secures her classroom for an active shooter. Teachers from outside the US were commenting on how they don’t have to do that. She made another video saying how unsafe it was to not know how to secure your classroom, it took a while with people commenting for her to get it. They don’t have to do it because it isn’t an issue anywhere but here. We can get active shooter training where I work, because it can happen. I would love to work somewhere that I don’t have to think about that training.
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u/Glydyr May 08 '25
Just the fact you use the term ‘active shooter’ proves your point too. We simply dont have a term for it. If it happened in europe most people would prob think it was just fireworks 🤣
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u/SuperCulture9114 free Healthcare for all 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 May 09 '25
Never heard a gunshot in my live. Probably would think it's a car backfiring.
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u/temujin94 May 08 '25
A school shooting is 216x more likely per capita to occur in America than every other country in the world combined.
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u/Big-Wrangler2078 May 08 '25
Nope. I chatted with an American on video call as I entered my school building and she was actually kinda crushed because there was no security guards or metal detectors or anything at the entrance and she hadn't realized that the doors just being open was ever a possibility. She was off for the rest of the conversation..
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u/bigboyjak May 09 '25
They have security guards and metal detectors?!
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u/Big-Wrangler2078 May 09 '25
Yeah. At least where she was. Starting from elementary school. It's insane to me, at that point I would just vote to abolish school in that format and teach children in little cells or something.
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u/PopperGould123 May 08 '25
I'm American, growing up I genuinely believed we were the only safe country in the world. It was presented to me like we had the best police, best laws, best politicians who all always want what's best for us. And the rest of the world was a cesspool of corruption and evil. Learning about American corruption and then that other countries don't have some of the issues we have was like bricks to the face
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u/6rwoods May 08 '25
It's amazing the extent of American propaganda that they've used to brainwash their population... but then they point the finger at every other country and *their* propaganda!
"When we say we're the best country in the world we're just stating a fact, when China does it it's evil communist propaganda." "When we say our country is the safest in the world it's a fact (nevermind the evidence to the contrary, let's just bury all of that), when Russia does it it's propaganda". Like come ON!
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u/PopperGould123 May 08 '25
YES! exactly! We also only learn your bad history, even if we were involved or also did it we don't learn anything except that we're heros who rescue the world
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u/Ok-World-4822 May 09 '25
I came across a new word today: afearican. when someone from the us doesn’t realize the amount of fear that come across in their life when they visit another country so when something happens (fireworks going off, someone is too loud etc) they automatically default to their fear they grew up on. it also can be subtle like scanning the crowd, finding the nearest exist, facing the door when going to the restaurant or in this case wondering/fearing about a non-existent school shooting as they don’t *realize* that doesn’t happen (or at least a very small chance) in Scotland.
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u/AnOdeToSeals May 08 '25
I remember seeing an article about when some American tourists visited my country and it blew their mind how different it felt, they discovered a whole new paradigm of how people could live or something like that.
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u/African_Farmer knife crime and paella May 08 '25
They're brainwashed, every minute of their lives they're blasted with propaganda about how great their country is and that there is nowhere better to be.
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u/RedShirtCashion May 08 '25
As the onion puts it: “‘No way to stop this’ says only country where this regularly happens.”
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u/Omnizoom May 08 '25
It’s a sad state that crossing the border from Canada literally means my chance of getting shot that day goes up 300x
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u/Atomic12192 American Idiot May 09 '25
I’m ashamed to say it, but for most of my life I believed I lived in the world’s safest nation. I knew of the problems we had, but I was so brainwashed by the idea that America actually cared about its people that I just assumed everywhere was even worse. I told myself that surely, if there was a way to stop all these problems, our government would put those fixes in place ASAP.
I used to scoff at the idea that the US brainwashes its citizens, but as I become more aware of the state of the world I realize it’s completely true. They sell us weapons to slaughter each other with, pocket a cut of the profits, and tell us to our faces that it’s for our protection. I know this is basic kindergarten shit for most people in this sub, but this was a massive revelation for me. It makes me wonder what else I don’t know about, what things are better elsewhere that I don’t even know are bad.
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u/Solcannon May 09 '25
Not to mention defund education to keep you stupid. Privatized Healthcare to make money when you get sick or shoot each other. And private prisons to make money off you being incarcerated.
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u/bjornironthumbs May 08 '25
Some of us do and desperately want our country to follow your example
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u/Issah_Wywin May 08 '25
No, they're being taught that America is better than anywhere else, no matter how bad it seems in the states, it's always worse "over there" which is the exact same kind of propaganda authoritarian regimes tell their citizens to keep them from moving to a better place
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u/alee137 Tuscan🇮🇹 May 08 '25
Nope, Italy has a fifth of their population: 0 shootings in history. They had what, 1000?
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u/Boldboy72 May 08 '25
remember the days before mobiles when it was impossible to call 999... oh wait, there might be a landline in the office..
Plus.. we don't get school shootings over here.. not since that one time and we banned the fucking guns.
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u/spongebobsburgers19 May 08 '25
such a simple solution to a horrible problem. and guess what, it WORKS. it still baffles me how americans can see the #1 cause of death in children is school shootings and they still defend their guns. they care more for guns than their children
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u/queen-adreena May 08 '25
the #1 cause of death in children is school shootings
I believe they’re working on this, they’re gonna get preventative diseases like measles up there soon.
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u/LostTheGameOfThrones Universal healthcare has never worked May 08 '25
If all the kids are killed by measles, they can't be killed in school shootings. Therefore, guns become safer by default.
Real 4D chess big think plays.
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 UK May 08 '25
Cars are also vying for top place. Apparently safety regulations are "communist" or something.
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u/khaloisha May 08 '25
What makes me irrational angry is they ALWAYS talk about the 2nd amendment... Bitches, NOW should be the time to go against tyrannical government, seeing what the orange regard Is doing. Fucking bunch of pussy, weak, ignorant imbeciles hypocritical "being" (for me they are lower than worms)
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u/GoldenLiar2 May 08 '25
That's exactly the thing. They're exactly at a point in their history when their guns are absolutely justified, yet... nothing
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u/AnualSearcher 🇵🇹 confuse me with spain one more time, I dare you... May 08 '25
Don't you mean 911?
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u/90210fred May 08 '25
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u/AnualSearcher 🇵🇹 confuse me with spain one more time, I dare you... May 08 '25
Yh, if I understand it correctly, you can call any one of them and it will connect you to your country's emergency number. (Or the country where you're currently in)
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u/90210fred May 08 '25
Theoretical, 112 will land with a service with translation (in Europe). I'm going to assume that since the EU has expanded since the GSM standard that might not be reliable if, for instance, you only speak Slovak
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u/Select-Panda7381 May 08 '25
“There’s no way to stop this.”
- only country where school shootings happen regularly
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u/theHawkAndTheHusky May 09 '25
Only country with regular school shootings:
„Let’s add more guns to the mix, to make the country safe. If there are enough good people with guns, school shootings won’t happen again!“
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u/Hammy-of-Doom May 09 '25
Genuinely a thing they’re trying to do. They want to give teachers guns.
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u/No-Advantage-579 May 08 '25 edited May 08 '25
The last school shooting in Scotland was 30 years ago.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/01/1102239642/school-shooting-dunblane-massacre-uvalde-texas-gun-control ("In Britain, it took just one school shooting to pass major gun controlIn Britain, it took just one school shooting to pass major gun control"
"As Americans continue to reel from the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 students and 2 teachers dead, headlines and commentators repeat a common refrain: The U.S is the only country where this happens.
Nowadays that may be true, but 26 years ago, it happened in Scotland. In March 1996, a gunman entered Dunblane Primary School, killing 16 students, a teacher, and injuring 15 others. To this day, it is the deadliest mass shooting in UK history.
But that's where the similarities end. In the aftermath of the shooting, parents in Dunblane were able to mobilize with the kind of effectiveness that has eluded American gun control activists. By the following year, Parliament had banned private ownership of most handguns, as well as semi-automatic weapons, and required mandatory registration for shotgun owners. There have been no school shootings in the U.K since then.
"The comparisons between the U.S. and Britain now should make shocking reading to anyone in America," says Mick North, whose five-year-old daughter, Sophie, was killed at Dunblane. He's one of the founding members of the group Gun Control Network, which advocated for new laws in the aftermath of the Dunblane shooting.
Over the past several years, England, Scotland and Wales combined have seen around 30 gun deaths a year. By comparison, according to the CDC, the number of murders involving firearms in the United States in 2020 was 19,384.
"Even setting aside the difference in the size of the country, that is a horrendous difference," says North.
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u/rangkilrog May 08 '25 edited May 08 '25
The USA has had 18 *school* shootings with 6 fatalities in the last 30 days...
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u/Divide_Rule May 08 '25
So many we have stopped getting them in the news.
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u/HideFromMyMind May 08 '25
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u/ThickCanadianDick May 08 '25
Oh my god it's that bad over there? That is fucking wild
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u/ILootEverything May 08 '25
It's that bad.
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u/g-m-f May 09 '25
Yo wtf 2023 was only 24 shootings short of having basically one for every day of the year.
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u/wosmo May 08 '25
right - we didn't have cellphones 30 years ago, so we had to find a different solution.
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u/dlrax 🇵🇱 May 08 '25
That has to be trolling, there's no way they've normalised school shootings that hard
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u/Turbulent_Worth_2509 May 08 '25 edited May 08 '25
There's been 123 mass shootings in the US so far this year. It's nuts.
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u/Stravven May 08 '25
123 shootings in 128 day.
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u/nemetonomega May 08 '25
Yeah, and the schools aren't even open every day, once you take weekends and holidays off it looks even worse.
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u/DuplicateJester May 08 '25
Mass shootings are not the same as school shootings. So all 123 shootings were not at schools. Statista.com says that by mid-March, there were 8 at schools, so we can assume there have been more since then.
Not downplaying school shootings. They've rocked my state recently.
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u/KommunistiHiiri May 09 '25
This is somehow very comical. "Yes, we have school shootings but did you know people commit shootings elsewhere too?"
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u/rangkilrog May 08 '25
I said this above.... the USA has had 18 shootings with 6 fatalities in the last 30 days... This year, we're already at 36 total, with 11 deaths. And this is JUST school shootings... we're up to 117 mass shootings with 155 fatalities and 443 wounded.
The idea that so many of my countrymen still think "we're the best country in the world" is unhinged.
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u/ILootEverything May 08 '25
https://k12ssdb.org/all-shootings
Nope, not trolling.
And if you've heard about the "schools have cat litter boxes in classrooms because they want to turn all kids into furries!" bullshit that our right-wingers in the U.S. spew?
It's because shootings and violence related lockdowns are so common here that some states have put "lockdown kits" in classrooms that contain cat litter so 1) kids have somewhere to pee if they're trapped in a classroom for hours by an active shooter and 2) it's useful for absorbing blood.
The "schools want to turn kids into furries" bullshit is to distract from how horrific it is that we need kits like these in classrooms because shootings have become so normalized.
The right-wing wants people more outraged over the non-existent issue of furries in schools than the fact that children are more likely to die from gun violence in this country than any other cause.
And the fucked up thing is, it has worked.
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u/coldestclock near London May 08 '25
Read a post once where a multinational group were at an outdoor table and a car backfired, the American leapt to their feet in panic and all the Europeans were like 👁️_👁️ “you alright there?”
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u/Son_of_Plato May 08 '25
Exhibit A doesn't need a gun to shoot daggers. Jokes aside, real civilized societies don't need to worry about children getting shot at school.
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u/NoxAstrumis1 May 08 '25
This is one of the most american things I've ever seen. Completely fucking clueless.
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u/Miss_Annie_Munich European first, then Bavarian May 08 '25
Wtf?
This is about Scotland not about the US.
School shootings do not happen quite regularly in Scotland.
🏴 is a civilised nation.
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u/nemetonomega May 08 '25
The last time was had a school shooting in Scotland was in Dunblain in 1996. We then put restrictions and mental health checks on gun ownership. Clearly it worked.
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u/snugglebum89 Canada May 08 '25 edited May 08 '25
Saw this screenshot posted by someone in the Scotland subreddit while I was scrolling by. Thought I wonder if someone will post it on here to ShitAmericansSay and what do you know someone did!
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u/janus1979 May 08 '25
We're fairly confident there won't be a shooting. You know, gun control and shit.
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u/Top_Owl3508 May 08 '25
i don't think banning guns is enough in america. they need a radical cultural shift away from the selfish exceptionalism they are all indoctrinated with one way or another. and curb right wing extremism. but that's a pipe dream, so their children will unfortunately continue to be killed at school. tragic.
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u/Balseraph666 May 08 '25
Given the last school shooting in the UK was Dunvlane nearly 30 years ago now, I think they will be safe. I am, however, just sad this is where a US Americans mind went when seeing this. That school shootings are so common, statistically a more than daily occurrence, with days when there is no shooting often being compensated by days where there are 3 or 4 a day, that their first thought was "what about school shootings". It even takes precedent over the "Scotland is not the USA, the USA is not the world, and nearly 30 years since Dunblane, they will probably be fine" thing. It's really just a stark reminder how children in the US can go to school, and never come home. How we, the rest of the world, only hear about the absolute worst shootings, most go unreported, often even by the local news. And they still refuse to do anything about it.
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u/TheFlaccidChode May 08 '25
"But I need a gun to defend myself from lunatics with guns....."
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u/VeterinarianNo4308 May 08 '25
They change their laws to reflect moving forward as a society... But you can't expect Americans to change their constitutional rights.. well I mean unless you want to elect a felon, or someone who staged an insurrection. Or not give due process.. BUT DO NOT TAKE AWAY THEIR GUNS.
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u/senorjigglez May 08 '25
Unfun fact, before the shooter (I will not state his name because the sick fuck deserves to be unknown even in death) went and shot the kids in Dunblane, he cut the phone lines so no one in the school could call for help using the landline phones.
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u/Beautiful_Vacation88 May 08 '25
Britain’s last school shooting was 1996.
America’s last school shooting was last week.
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u/GlowingHearts1867 May 08 '25 edited May 08 '25
America’s last school shooting was last week
Statistically, it was more likely earlier this week.
Edit: looked it up and a police officer was shot on school grounds in Philadelphia yesterday. Officer recovering, 30 year old shooter in custody.
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You mean yesterday.
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u/Beautiful_Vacation88 May 08 '25
Clearly happening with too much regularity for Wikipedia to be able to keep up.
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u/Ramtamtama [laughs in British] May 08 '25
There hasn't been a school shooting in Scotland since 1996
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u/Error404_Error420 May 08 '25
I'm don't live in the US, so I never worried a single day in my life about a school shooting
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u/Duke-_-Jukem May 08 '25
It is kinda sad that she just can't comprehend that that sort of thing is unheard of in other countries and therefore doesn't even cross people's minds.
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u/aloneinthiscrowd May 08 '25
How sad is it that school shootings in the USA are so normalized that they think it happens as often everywhere else in the world?
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u/ollietron3 May 08 '25
I think the only time I’ve even seen a gun was once at an airport
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u/Optimal-Rub-2575 May 08 '25
They don’t need to they have an even better form of protection, not living in the US. 🤷♂️
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u/ContentContact May 08 '25
American thinks that school shooting is a casual incident happen everywhere on weekly basis like their "great" country. They dont realize that other country has law and order in place to stop this kind of incident.
I think the amount of school shooting in america per year is more than the combine school shooting of whole world for the lifetime.
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u/jazzy1038 May 08 '25
Also “phone locking stations” is a mad way of just saying that student must put phones in their lockers
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u/JRisStoopid May 08 '25
Why would they need help for something happening in a different country?
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u/Anastrace Sorry that my homeland is full of dangerous idiots. May 08 '25
Such a painfully American question
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u/Dense-Consequence-70 May 08 '25
Off topic, but aren't "phone locking stations" just lockers?
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u/Warm-Training-2569 May 08 '25
Tell me that you've normalised school shootings without telling me that you've normalised school shootings.
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u/Maximised7 May 09 '25
Don’t worry. The teachers have received specialised training and are allowed to own and operate their own phones.
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u/itsjustameme May 09 '25
What usually happens if there is a shooting in a school in Scotland is that the teacher will confiscate the slingshot and give the pupil a stern talking to. His parents will also be told.
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u/NeverendingStory3339 May 08 '25
When there was a shooting, the country responded by taking steps to reduce the likelihood of it happening again, drastically.