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Your perceptions about the experience of the average American are a long way from accurate. You might want to take a hard look at the media you're consuming.
EDIT: I have now discovered that the fastest way to kick the Lemmy hornet's nest is to say you aren't living in constant terror of being mowed down at random. How do you people function out in public? Do you even go out in public? This place is a fucking hole.
There's a child in my family who has monthly school shooter drills
I'm american. Is my perception of the average American correct?
And when I was a kid we had tornado drills. Schools got hit by tornados, but it was a freak incident that was ultimately an overblown fear.
If only there was some parallel we could draw here...
And that figure is inflated. The School Shootings That Weren't https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent
When people hear "school shootings" they imagine events like Columbine, even when that's not what's being counted. Literally every time a gun is fired at a school regardless of circumstances, it's a school shooting. This includes cases where nobody is injured, the event happens after hours, or the people involved are unaffiliated with the school. Seriously, the NPR article I linked mentions a case where a guy killed himself in the parking lot of a building owned by the school district (that had not had students in it for years). That counted as a school shooting.
The sort of event people imagine IS more common than tornadoes, and even stupid, unrelated incidents that result in injuries is ALSO more common than tornadoes. The fact remains that there are not 400 Columbines a year. The chances of a particular student dying of any violent means on school property is vanishingly small. People worried about their kids getting killed in a school shooting should also worry about meteor and lightning strikes.
It's insane that a gun is even fired off in school that often. What circumstances could make that OK
It isn't OK, every single case is a crime.
There was a newsworthy incident where a cop managed to pull off a negligent discharge. Nobody got hurt, but guess what? Still a school shooting.
So what? Still proves that your comparison to tornado drills is, well, utterly ridiculous and without merit...
The children have nothing to fear because it’s actually illegal for bullets to miss their intended target.
There's no way that figure holds up. For tornadoes I mean.
Media bias is one thing for sure, but there are data showing that gun related death are much higher in the USA than whole of Europe (except, well... Ukraine).
Gun related death per 100k inhabitants, in 2019: USA=10, Netherlands=0.5. Gun deaths by country - WorldPopulationReview.com
I'm not arguing that, especially because that figure includes suicides.
I've noticed that (especially on Lemmy) people outside the US think we're dodging bullets as we go about our days. Really, everybody is just doing their own thing and minding their own business.
You know no one thinks that
Are you high? Is this your first day on Lemmy?
Cool more shit no one believes. Feel better now?
I'm american. Bold of you to think I have access to psychiatric care. Oh wait no that was just the MeDiA telling me that I don't, not my decades of life experience
They literally gave no details about their perception. They might just pity people with kids who worry about school shootings which is a valid thing to feel and a valid thing to pity.
Anyolduser: You're all a bunch of pussies for being afraid to get shot in a country without reasonable gun laws and increasing political unrest.
Also Anyolduser: People are disagreeing with me?!? "This place is a fucking hole"
I left the fucking country because it was too dangerous for my kids. Fuck off.
That is the poorest decision making I've ever even heard of. You left the largest, most stable economy in human history - one that is insulated from any serious geopolitical threat by oceans - because you got spooked by scary news stories?
Great job hamstringing your kids.
No, because a school shooting happend at my kids school in Virginia. Aren't you due to go suck off the NRA and MAGA any moment now?
Long term economic prospects? My kids currently have free healthcare and college. America is a burning dumpster fire and it's mainly because of the republican party. Take your trolling to truthsocial lol
"My kids school was shot up"
"well, its your fault for sending them to public school, instead of paying through the nose for private school"
Yea... the USA is screwed.
Earlier this month, I had a parent-teacher meeting with lots of parents and she had to explain to one parent to please stop allowing her 2nd grader to come with weapons. The parent kept putting a butterfly knife in the kid's bookbag and she explained that they are doing everything they can to ensure safety, but now when a 2nd grader has a knife.
People are fucking nuts. You have to think that at some point the thought would occur to them that they shouldn't be slipping a knife into little Timmy's backpack.
Closing the asylums was a mistake.
What, about gun violence? Are you saying the shootings are under reported?
Honestly. For one the US is huge. Its like saying "living in Europe" as a shared common experience, two because of our news stations sensationalist stories are blasted 24/7 and on repeat.
The day to day life isn't THAT crazy. No one I know personally had any personal experience with gun violence at school. 0. Out of about 100 people.
Its still tragic that any kid has experienced violence in school. 1 is too many. Its just not the daily lived experience of most Americans.
Yea, you would have to pay me an INSANE amount of money to move to the USA. Between your increasing facism, lack of basic human services like healthcare, and issues like school shootings... I'm shocked more people aren't fleeing.
this is what chronically online does to people
Or, you know, having a viewpoint of the USA from outside the USA, where the flaws are more obvious and you aren't caught up in the Pro-USA insanity.
No, it's because you're chronically online.
uh huh. Sure. Keep telling yourself that, guy with 3x the Lemmy comments.
What was that? Canadian throwing stones in glass houses? Couldn't be!
As an American I’ve never been a target of gun violence, but every once in a while (maybe once a year tops) I hear that telltale crack when I’m not in the best of places and I have to skedaddle. I’ve never been in a mass shooting, but I’ve mourned too many. I’m not living in constant fear of them, but I’m exhausted by how many happen.
Lived in America for 30 years and left 2 years ago. Had an active shooter come into my office looking to kill a co-worker. Luckily he couldn't get into the inside secured door and left.
My best friend had an active shooter in his daughters grade school. The guy was looking to kill a specific teacher but couldn't find him and left.
It's very fortunate that your life is so innocent. It's not the case for all of us.