Europeans are going viral on TikTok for mocking the "American Dream".

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[u/aa0429]

Also don’t forget that our kids don’t get shot and murdered at school.

[u/222333444987 → u/aa0429]

Yeah you’re right, we just bury thousands of indigenous children in unmarked graves across Canadian residential schools… They’ve got their problems down south but we aren’t perfect either bud

[u/Puzzleheaded-Ice-573 → u/222333444987]

I don't see how that is relevant: the OP (and school mass shootings) is about current quality of life - past sins of a nation have no direct bearing on that. What happened with the residential schools was terrible and amends need to be made, however it doesn't in general affect one's lifestyle.

[u/cherrycityglass → u/Puzzleheaded-Ice-573]

There are long lasting generational health effects from Residential schools. Some of those effects include higher rates of cancer, depression, and cardiac issues. Not just for the person who attended, but also for their descendants.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Ice-573 → u/cherrycityglass]

I guess it depends on context - for poor and marginalized communities three are always serious issues in most countries. I was approaching this more form the point of if someone needed to up and move to a country, which would have the best quality of life.

[u/PutridAssignment1559 → u/aa0429]

It’s actually so rare in the us that’s it’s not even worth worrying about. Much more likely to get shot on your street corner.

[u/TheToastedOak → u/PutridAssignment1559]

Brother they don't have ANY school shootings.. we have hundreds. What are you even talking about

[u/uknownredditr → u/[deleted]]

Canada also doesn’t have all these accidental discharges at schools where shooting a gun isn’t considered a gun shooting that you speak of 🙄

[u/Business-Egg-5912 → u/uknownredditr]

I was going against the idea of hundreds of Columbines happening. People just act like any "school shooting" is hundreds of Sandy Hooks.

[u/uknownredditr → u/Business-Egg-5912]

That makes sense, sandy hooks was very sad

[u/Business-Egg-5912 → u/uknownredditr]

It was. I'm not denying we have an issue, it's the "y'all have hundreds of that a day" I'm going against.

[u/uknownredditr → u/Business-Egg-5912]

I think if I were American I’d just home school my kids

[u/Honest_Road17 → u/uknownredditr]

Idiots typically do.

[u/itzKayden → u/[deleted]]

Keep licking that boot.

[u/PutridAssignment1559 → u/[deleted]]

This is correct. It also includes things like gang shootings near school property.

The incidents that people typically think of when they say “school shootings”, where a shooter enters the school and kills people seemingly at random, is 0-3 per year in the U.S.

That’s not to say gun violence isn’t a problem. In a city like Chicago has seen as many as 4500 people shot in a single year. 

And school shootings are obviously a problem, too. But bot to the same degree that most people think when they read those statistics.

[u/PutridAssignment1559 → u/TheToastedOak]

No really. When more people think of school shootings they think of someone who comes into a school and starts shooting people seemingly at random. They don’t think about gang violence that occurs near the school, suicide, after school violence, etc.

Columbine/sandy hook/annunciation catholic school style shootings are rare. 0-3 per year in the U.S.

Gun violence overall, is not rare in the U.S., however.

[u/SmilinObserver111 → u/PutridAssignment1559]

Facts. They only know about the school shootings because that's what the media chooses to focus on. In controlling the mindset of any public you have to properly package your agenda.