Oops, I did post the wrong link. The goal posts got moved on me here too lol. The statement was that this didn't happen in Europe and now we are discussing how much less relatively. In the US right now there are about 74 million school children, at the same time there are an estimated 320 million firearms in the hands of about 140 million people. We can safely assume, I believe, that the number of school age kids that have access to firearms number in the several hundred thousands. With these numbers we can look at it several ways.
1. There were 204 school shootings in the US in the last 20 years, since 1984 thesee shootings have resulted in 237 deaths. This means there are about 10 shootings a year and the only issue is that the weapons are not stored correctry and this will fix it.
2. Same prelude as above but it is strictly a societal anomaly that never used to happen. (It did)
3. 74 million kids go to school 9 months out of the year and 10 times a year someone brings a gun to scool and shoots it. The school shooting is definitely an exception to the rule.
It is an issue definitely, an overwhelming problem? I don't think so when looking at the numbers. Would storage laws help? Probably would cut down the numbers some, closing all the schools would trim the numbers too. Safe storage laws are unenforceable. The only reason behind them is to have someone to charge for a crime after the fact, which does no good at that point. I would imagine that having your child shoot up a school is just as traumatic as having your child shot, hopefully I'll never have to find out.
As far as Europe, the number of guns is just one of the differences. If we were to lok at it country by country and take each ones laws into account I doubt we can find a link that one significantly helps or hurts.
Like someone else said there was a set of circumstances that lead up to these and every one is different. We all wish it was as simple as another law but when they break 40 laws already what's one more?
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