School shooting in Europe: A tragedy
School shooting in America: A Tuesday
Pssh, like we only do 1 a week
Closer to a day. 288 this year, but school's out, so we'll just have some mall and church shootings to close out the season.
I was in Auckland, NZ when there was an active shooter in late July and the whole city was on alert. I was expecting an American style mass shooting based on the number of sirens I heard outside. When I found out it was a disgruntled employee who shot 2 coworkers I thought "Oh, that's just a Tuesday in America"
Yeah, except the Czech Republic will probably take meaningful steps to ensure it doesn't happen again
Oh wow!
Now we have a total of 40 school shootings in Europe ... since 1900.
The States do that in like what, two weeks?
No, but definitely in less than one year.
I love how the Wikipedia article only lists the most horrific school shootings in the US, since it is too much work to list all of them.
USA! USA! USA!
I had to actually read an article to make sure it wasn't Prague, Wisconsin or some nonsense.
Prague WI definitely doesn't have a university. If I remember right Prague WI doesn't even have a gas station.
I just naturally assumed I'd misread and that it was something to do with PragerU.
His online diary or manifesto whatever was already posted on 4chan, just on like Dec. 10 he was debating if he wanted to be a serial killer that kills one at a time or mass shooter. Long story short, he was going to do some fucked up shit no matter what.
"Wait a minute,
They have guns in other countries?"
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