19 Countries with the Most School Shootings (total incidents Jan 2009-May 2018.
I firmly believe in the right to own a firearm, however the freedom in this country that basically has no gun laws in many states will result in the above. The far right will tell you the government wants to take away your guns, propaganda pure and simple. This is what has kept common sense out of any legislation that might have saved lives. If any of us watches CNN or MSNBC or Fox news on a regular basis then be aware of the BS you are filling your mind with, you may as well live in Russia or China because it is pure non factual biased propaganda that is poisoning the minds of Americans on many issues. There is no black and white to any issue the answer is always in the middle somewhere. WE NEED BETTER GUN LAWS. Can you imagine if it were your child. Bad people kill others, guns don't, however as you look at facts like the above statistics there is a correlation between lax gun laws and school shootings. It is undeniable.
side note : why is this country as a whole getting less educated about the world and the universe instead of more informed thus changing mindsets away from superstitions and the beliefs we were brainwashed with as children. There is so much science out there that is amazing to discover, yet we wallow in our daily small and narrow scopes of the world. In the distant past I could find friends, coworkers strangers, that you could talk to about science, new positive stuff and have really intellectual conversations about important topics. In the last 8 years I can find no one who wants to talk about these things because they don't spend any time learning about them, so when you bring soemthing up about quantum physics or DNA discoveries that remove ignorance and superstition from our lives I just get a blank stare. Even on here I have had private conversations with people and they go back to belief systems and refuse to educate themselves. Just saying we live in an amazing time and maybe if we really made a daily effort to inform ourselves of who we are and where we came from and how amazing this world and all the billons of worlds out there are, it could help our own perspective and help us talk to each other instead standing staunchly with our belief systems and being so intolerant of others. I venture to guess the average American spends more time in one day watching BS on the internet or tv than they do in a year trying to educate themselves with the vast amount of discoveries we make each day in the world of science, medicine, quantum physics etc.
I'll leave you with a Mark Twain quote:
From LIFE magazine, March 22, 1883
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition
- United States 288
- Mexico 8
- South Africa 6
- India 5
- Nigeria & Pakistan 4
- Afghanistan 3
- Brazil, Canada, France 2
- Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, & Turkey
I firmly believe in the right to own a firearm, however the freedom in this country that basically has no gun laws in many states will result in the above. The far right will tell you the government wants to take away your guns, propaganda pure and simple. This is what has kept common sense out of any legislation that might have saved lives. If any of us watches CNN or MSNBC or Fox news on a regular basis then be aware of the BS you are filling your mind with, you may as well live in Russia or China because it is pure non factual biased propaganda that is poisoning the minds of Americans on many issues. There is no black and white to any issue the answer is always in the middle somewhere. WE NEED BETTER GUN LAWS. Can you imagine if it were your child. Bad people kill others, guns don't, however as you look at facts like the above statistics there is a correlation between lax gun laws and school shootings. It is undeniable.
side note : why is this country as a whole getting less educated about the world and the universe instead of more informed thus changing mindsets away from superstitions and the beliefs we were brainwashed with as children. There is so much science out there that is amazing to discover, yet we wallow in our daily small and narrow scopes of the world. In the distant past I could find friends, coworkers strangers, that you could talk to about science, new positive stuff and have really intellectual conversations about important topics. In the last 8 years I can find no one who wants to talk about these things because they don't spend any time learning about them, so when you bring soemthing up about quantum physics or DNA discoveries that remove ignorance and superstition from our lives I just get a blank stare. Even on here I have had private conversations with people and they go back to belief systems and refuse to educate themselves. Just saying we live in an amazing time and maybe if we really made a daily effort to inform ourselves of who we are and where we came from and how amazing this world and all the billons of worlds out there are, it could help our own perspective and help us talk to each other instead standing staunchly with our belief systems and being so intolerant of others. I venture to guess the average American spends more time in one day watching BS on the internet or tv than they do in a year trying to educate themselves with the vast amount of discoveries we make each day in the world of science, medicine, quantum physics etc.
I'll leave you with a Mark Twain quote:
From LIFE magazine, March 22, 1883
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition