From: slider@anashram.org

(CNN) School shootings are a reality in America, an average of one a week
just this year alone.

But how does the US compare with other countries in the world?

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd/index.html

That's difficult to ascertain because very little research exists to
quantify that.

For the purposes of this analysis, we followed the criteria below -

The scope: First, we looked at the G7 countries -- the countries with the largest advanced economies in the world.

The countries are Canada, the US, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, the UK.

The time period: From January 1, 2009 to May 21, 2018.

The definition: The parameters we followed in this count are -

Shooting must involve at least one person being shot (not including
the shooter)
Shooting must occur on school grounds
We included gang violence, fights and domestic violence (but our count
is NOT limited to those categories)
We included grades K through college/university level as well as vocational schools
We included accidental discharge of a firearm as long as the first two parameters are met

The analysis: For US stats, CNN reviewed media reports and a variety of databases including those from the Gun Violence Archive and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. For international stats, we looked at local
and national media reports.

The caveat: Reporting on non-fatal school shootings is not always
available. There may be additional school shootings with injuries that did
not make it into the newspaper or digital publications, and therefore
aren't counted in databases that rely on media reports. This is true for shootings in the US and overseas.

What we found:

There have been at least 288 school shootings in the United States since January 1, 2009.

That's 57 times as many shootings as the other six G7 countries combined.

Broadening out the list

Next, we wanted to broaden our list out to include some countries that
were mentioned in a few of the viral posts that were going around this
weekend.

In some of the incidents, the casualty count is very high (the Peshawar
siege; the Kenya attack). But when it comes to the 'frequency' of attacks,
the US still leads by a wide margin.

### - imho, all it means, is that the 'madness' that's rapidly apparently descending upon the human race, is merely more advanced/pronounced in what
is ostensibly the 'flagship' of our current civilisation: the US?

i.e., am thinking maybe we should 'keep' the russians & the chinese and
even the muslims (and the funny way they dress, thang, heh) around if only
to keep our apparently increasing insanity somewhat in-check?

and 'coz if we have nothing (eventually, in an air-conditioned
nightmare-type scenario i mean) to compare ourselves and our ideology to & with, then how will we ever know if we've gone (or are going) insane or
not?

let's just 'keep' everything ok before we 'start' destroying things?

sort out what we've actually... gots??

could we 'be' that... big... about shit?

probably not lol :)))

oh it was just an idea, fuck it hahaha...

okaaay everyone! tea-break's over! - back under ya's all go!

hahaha :D

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