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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

I think comparing with Mexico is the most stark example there - Mexico has major violence problems, guns absolutely everywhere, and a population 1/3 that of the USA. But even scaled for population the US had more than 10x more school shootings in that period. Just under 10x for South Africa - another notoriously violent country with a lot of guns in the population. "Shooting up the school" is such a strangely specific US issue, and I've never seen any real explanation proposed for that.

it is odd, I think you'd have to maybe do a some sort of a study on the people who do these though to try and find any sort of explanation. I wonder if anybody has ever tried to do that? You'd think they would have, if they're not going to restrict guns at least see why schools are the targets.