If you ask them, they will say they feel pretty free, since they can send their kid to school without worrying about it being shot :)

Since I live in France, I also can claim that shotless schooling experience, but I also happen to be allowed to write on this very comment:

"Macron is an asshole"

Without thinking it will affect my life in any way.

So at this point, I'll just assume you are a troll and ignore you.

I mean, that's a good point, for sure. However, I'm just the messenger here, you should ask them. I've talked to a lot of them.

I think that, in terms of insulting the leader... most Chinese are pretty happy with Xi? But yeah, totalitarian regime, insulting leader, bad idea.

Why do the Paris police carry military rifles?

Even in the US your kids are not likely to get shot unless they're involved with youth drug gangs, that's where most of the child gun deaths come from. In France they trade the mass shooting incidents in for truck or bomb attacks.

The fact that you think this is something you should be concerned about when sending your kid to school shows that you lack critical thinking and base your idea of the US on agenda pushing media instead of rationality.

I don't know how many times I have to make this clear but as I said, this is what they say.

> since they can send their kid to school without worrying about it being shot :)

Propaganda and brainwashing is probably a worse risk than that.