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That this is an outlier for the Czech Republic does rather point to the fact that the American domestic terrorists are primarily a cultural problem.
And we do love exporting our culture.
There's one every few years in almost every country.
The difference is it's not a mass shooting per week... This doesn't help your argument as much as you think it does.
Edit: also the joke is most developed countries are allowed to own guns to some extent, a total ban is only what your side tells you to keep your support.
You mean per day.
Let’s use SI units. Per second.
Damn dude, literally couldn't google what the gun laws in Czech Republic are.
Well that’s why it’s actually news worthy… in the US it would just be another normal day.
Czechia has quite permissive gun laws iirc
You could say liberal gun laws but that would have confused them so I thank you for your word choice
I actually wrote "good" first, but then I realized that left way too much to interpretation, and quickly changed it to "permissive", "liberal" never entered my train of thought.
Probably not for long.
Here's your spoonfed quote literally pulled from the article to go with your dipshit comment.
I'm sure if you had the patience, literacy, and weren't currently struggling with your mental capacity to make it this far down my comment to read this much, you'd probably feel a bit like an asshole to try to make this nightmarish story into your opportunity to talk about needing more guns on the street. Alas, I'm currently speaking into the void cuz your head is likely still buried just far enough up your own ass for you to enjoy the smell of your own farts while searching for your next astounding comment. The people you hear crying aren't the ones you triggered with your unhinged comment, it's the sound of everyone who cares about you. We're all really concerned about you and are worried you'd suffocate were it not for how much you laugh at your own heartless comments.
I don't know why you thought that. They're not.
Why did you think that?
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting we've had 23 mass shootings in the US in December alone.
I really wish we could get actual apples to apples "mass shooting" comparisons. Everything from the site you linked to Wikipedia has been restructured to help make the argument that the US has tons of "mass shootings."
Take this entry near me from that list you linked https://www.cleveland19.com/2023/12/04/cleveland-police-more-than-dozen-people-shot-several-stabbed-over-weekend/
The 4 people shot, there's no context as to whether that was random, gang violence, stray bullets in a conflict, etc. This sort of thing almost definitely happens outside of the US, e.g., https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2021/10/22/swedens-brutal-gang-problem-heres-what-officials-blame-it-on/?sh=6bb1d29fa281
In this particular case it's something that happened at 3 in the morning outside of a bar... Gang or not it was probably more drunken brawl where someone pulled a gun and things went bad fast.
That's pretty different from some person going to a university, a school, a public event, and unloading on anyone they see with intent to inflict as many casualties as possible on someone that they've never even spoken a word to ... which is what I remember a "mass shooting" meaning up until recently. And that shit doesn't happen 23 times in a single month. It happens a few times a year which given the size of the US is much more comparable (granted I think still elevated) when compared to European mass shootings.
Bro, come on. Sweden has a population of 10.42 million and they had a drop in gun violence from 62 homicides in 2022 to 42 in 2023. https://www.statista.com/chart/30946/annual-number-of-fatal-shootings-in-sweden/
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/31/1209683893/how-the-u-s-gun-violence-death-rate-compares-with-the-rest-of-the-world It's not even a close comparison.
Quit making bad faith arguments to defend the US, our gun crimes are super preventable.
Another uneducated American haha.