Re:A pre-K teacher on the trouble with lockdown drills
by dllthomas on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @05:34PM
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"No, in America people pretty much never shoot each other. I've heard there is this perception in other countries that you constantly have people shooting each other in America, but actually you don't."
Interesting. This is technically incorrect, in a way that would leave it more misleading if corrected naively.
Any given American almost never gets shot or shot at, and any given American almost never shoots another. Partly because of the size of our population (and partly for some other reasons) it is pretty frequently the case that some American shoots another. That is not incompatible with it being not being a significant risk.
> because people don't shoot each other. In America, it's a threat, because the culturally acceptable thing for an upset person is to go on a rampage with a firearm. It's crazy.
It's crazy? No this idea of yours is. Where did you get it? Some bizarre movie?
No, in America people pretty much never shoot each other. I've heard there is this perception in other countries that you constantly have people shooting each other in America, but actually you don't. You could go your entire life and not see a gun.
> It's the environment that is safe or not
And it's safe. Not sure what that has to do with guns though. I guess the more guns people have the safer?
I think you might want to come to America and visit Texas, or some other area with greater than 50% gun ownership. You'll never feel safer.
You perception and reality are so far apart that words are not likely to convince you.