The GQP simply doesn't care. NRA makes them lots and lots of money.

2 simple answers: this chart is "FAKE NEWS!" or "this is what happens when you take God out of schools!"

If you give every kid a gun, they can protect themselves from the other kids with guns. If that sounds crazy, then just replace kid with adult and you'll have the Republican argument...

This chart makes me so sad.

It's more than just a gun problem. Guns are common in some of the countries on the list that don't have a school shooting problem. So, why is violence an answer for so many people? I suspect a big part of the problem is how individual focusedl vs how group focused the society is. Over all the U.S. has gotten very individual entitled focused. Very me (or my small group) deserves (insert item here) nevermind anyone else, they don't deserve anything. How to fix it? No idea.

That and the fact that there are 380 million people in the US.... It becomes really easy to get into a negative frame of mind when there are so many people competing for limited resources. Guns are definitely a problem, but so is their entire system. It's all rigged against everyone who lives there, unless they are in one of the groups of ultra-rich. Spirituality might have something to do with it, but not because it should be in schools; I really disagree with forcing that on kids who don't yet understand the world. They need time to grow into themselves and then be given the opportunity to decide for themselves what kind of spirituality they want to follow, what makes the most sense to them individually. The US, and people there, just has a really backwards way of viewing a lot of important things while also hyperinflating what should be non-issues

In my opinion, not schools, but possibly homes. Please don't downvote me, this is just my opinion.

Tell that to the South, they're why we cant make productive progress

Pretty obvious indeed, there are many countries with armed citizens not on the list, so it's clear that gun ownership has nothing to do with it. However if you overlap the data of the following three charts you may find more correlation: list of countries with the right to bear arms, list of countries by debt per Capita, list of countries with school shootings. Mental health is real, not a joke. If people are losing it, they'll attack people with out without a gun.

All it is, is money

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

That's just an excuse.

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Criminals wouldn't be effected by a law prohibiting guns. The only ones who would follow the law would be the non criminals. So who would stop them if there isn't time to wait for police, of course?

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Owning a gun is a right. If SOMEONE does not understand it, it’s fine.

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So say someone shoots up with a gun that was purchased illegally from across the border. Person comes over and shoots up a school. Nobody has guns because y'all wanted them gone so they are gone. Police don't have guns because y'all wanted them gone. Person goes in a shoots every single student because there's no way to sadly stop him because NO BODY HAS GUNS. What then? I'm asking

You nailed it.

How long ago did people have to fend for themselves with guns in the US? Seriously? And the wars in Europe somehow made Europeans more conscious with guns whereas American treat guns as toys because war is what happens to other people? And that's why shooting people seems to be a viable solution to problems and nobody bats an eye?

That and they REALLY didn't want the British coming back to try to force them to submit to the crown again, so it makes sense that there is such a deeply held belief that they need guns.

I think they know perfectly well what a problem it is. I think their profits just makes them not give one single fυck.

You don't though. There's countries with more guns per capita and they don't have school shootings. For example Switzerland. It's not the guns, it's the people. Y'all are crazy af.

5 shootings in a decade among over a billion people.

Of course it will. School shootings happen when kids their hands on guns. Kids get their hands on guns when parents own guns. If parents no longer own guns, kids cannot easily get guns. I live in South Africa, we're number 3 on that list. We have gun control. I can go out and get some cocaine fairly easily, I cannot get a gun without jumping serious hoops. Drugs are far easier.....and far more lucrative to sell since drugs make you feel good. They are consumed and thus the dealer can sell to the same person multiple times. Guns do not make you feel good. Guns are not consumed. You sell a gun to a person once and they're no longer a customer. TLDR: Guns and cocaine are not at all comparable, it's like comparing KFC to computers.

Not really. If you restrict the sale of guns to people who have a genuine and legitimate reason for owning one (Not self defence). Then you drastically reduce the opportunities for these shootings to occur. Here in the UK we have some of the tightest gun ownership restrictions in the world, we also have some of the lowest numbers of firearms related murders in the world. On average there are 33 people killed with firearms in the UK per year, that is less than you guys kill in an average week. Do you really think that this is a coincidence?

Tell you what; remove the weapons of mass destruction, the immediate danger, first - focus on the massive project of changing the entire healthcare system second, how about that? We have complete lunatics here too, but since we don’t have the guns, the problem of school shootings doesn’t exist. At all. Way to try to shift focus, but no. Guns are still the biggest problem and the whole of earthly statistics back that up in full. Fail.

The cause of mass shootings in our country is not because of violence in TV and video games. Other countries have access to the same types of media we do, but do NOT have the gun violence we do. We have more privately owned guns than there are people living in this country - so, more than 336 MILLION. The problems are too many guns and a total lack of honest politicians willing to do a goddamned thing about it.

Well, I'll agree with you that we have a culture issue. A 🎶 'this land is my land, it isn't your land, I've got a shotgun and you ain't got one...' 🎶 culture issue.