by Carmella on October 3rd, 2006

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Why are there proportionally more school shootings in America than England?

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by ddixonart on October 3rd, 2006
I'm just going to throw out a guess here, that proportionally, more people have guns in USA
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- this makes sense to me.
  
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  by yoho05 reminds you to DYOH on October 3rd, 2006
- I don't think that is the entire reason. Why are school shootings just now becoming prevalent when guns and schools have been around for a long time?
  
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  by Darkling on October 3rd, 2006
- Darn tootin! It is a lot harder to shoot students with a knife.
  Oh yeah -- nice sketch, too!
  
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  by Stableboy on October 3rd, 2006
- Eddie Izzard does a great piece about guns in his stand-up routine: The NRA says "guns don't kill people, people kill people." "I tend to think the guns help..."
  
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  by Anonymous on October 9th, 2006
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by Stableboy on October 3rd, 2006
We have a generally more violent mindset, based on many years of conditioning and some distorted ideas about manhood, nationalism, group identity, and assertiveness. Thus all the guns, the extreme violence in films, video games, etc.

Basically, its a cultural difference that's pretty deeply rooted.
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- I strongly agree with this. It is the US cultural acceptance of violence for solving problems which causes the problem, not gun ownwership, which is a symptom not a cause.
  
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  by Im Alec has abandoned this account on October 4th, 2006
- Very insightful answer.
  
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  by Darkling on October 4th, 2006
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by TBURG2 on October 3rd, 2006
England (and Canada) have very strict gun control. Many states encourage gun ownership. And of course there is the extremely right wing NRA!!
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- Just because someone owns a gun doesn't mean he will go out and shoot someone. There has to be an underlying problem.
  
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  by Darkling on October 7th, 2006
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by Discipline on December 18th, 2008
Blame the pro-gun voters holding every president's decision for extortion.
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by Anonymous on March 3rd, 2009
Think about the ratio of people between the countries. Now say that America has a 25 percent higher overall aggression rating than the UK. That speaks for itself.
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by Sid on December 18th, 2008
There is far easier access to guns in the U.S.
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by Roger Kovaciny on October 6th, 2006
England had the foresight to spend several centuries hanging their criminals or deporting them to Botany Bay in Australia. In an almost Darwinian fashion, that and the educational benefit of seeing the wicked on the end of a rope, strongly discouraged the criminal population, so much so that it wasn't until the 1960's that British police had to start carrying guns.

In Australia, the deported criminals kept each other in check and evolved a great society.
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- Actually, most police still don't carry guns as a matter of routine.
  
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  by Carmella on October 7th, 2006
- Its still fairly unusual to see a British policeman with a gun.
  
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  by Anonymous on October 9th, 2006
- Do you have any evidence at all to back up your statement? I'm from Australia and that is one of the most ridiculous statements i have ever read.
  
  Most "criminals" deported to Australia were convicted of theft (usually food to feed their starving families) or committed crimes to get to Australia on purpose to find a better life.
  
  Also, around 16,500 were deported to Australia. Australia is now a country of 26 million people.
  
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by jourestupid on October 12th, 2006
Are there actually more school shootings in the U.S. than there are in the U.K.? I'd like to see some facts on that. If there are, it's to do with unraised American youth and other cultural problems, not guns. Gun control doesn't actually control/eliminate guns or stop violence. Criminals don't care about laws banning guns. That's why they're criminals.

Furthermore, the notion that gun control makes it harder for criminals to obtain guns is absurd. A determined criminal will obtain his weapon of choice and carry out his crime, regardless of all other factors, save one: the prospect of the intended victim being armed.
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- In 25 years I've only heard of one UK school shooting in the news (Dunblane). I can think of at least four in the US. I don't think anyone would argue they are more common in the US- whatever the reason may be.
  
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  by Anonymous on October 12th, 2006
- is it true that americans use guns to make peolpe think they have larger genitals than the averge korean
  
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  by imortal on August 3rd, 2008
- Its a simple answer to the question. Guns are readily accessable in America to everyone resulting in a greater number of firearm crimes.
  
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by Twisted Taco on December 18th, 2008
Because America is the home of the psychotic, the land of the dysfunctional. I trust that the English still have some common sense and normalcy left in their society. So much for the USA being the best country in the world, eh?
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by Davidsays on September 19th, 2011
Because guns are readily accessable in America but don't tell the NRA about that, all they care about is their stupid right to bear arms
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