By an edhat reader
SB Police are responding to the SBUSD (Santa Barbara Unified School District) offices at 720 Santa Barbara Street for a weird incident.
Reporting party called dispatch and stated an unknown male walked into their office without pants on. Now in their office bathroom. Police responding. Haven't heard anymore.
I think you have to throw out Norway (or throw out the one shooting) as it's an anomaly that obviously skewers the data.
I think it's appropriate to also look at the murder rate, of which ours is much higher than pretty much any/every first world country. We're at 4.96 per 100k people. By comparison Norway is at .47, Australia is at .89, France is at 1.20 and Liberia is at 3.26. Our four closest comparable countries are Cuba, Kazakhstan, Kenya and Angola...all fine and lovely spots...but come on!!!
A change is needed. It's unfortunate as I am not one to typically be in favor of giving up rights and letting the government do/take more...but a change is needed. It's time.
Sac - That's kind of a silly question, as obviously size of country matters. What I think we're losing sight of though, is that mass shootings are just one of the reasons we need to change some of our gun laws. Even if it turned out France has more mass shootings than us (per capita), our murder rate is nearly 4 times that of France. Mass school shootings shock us...but people are shot and killed every single day in the US...we need to change our gun laws to limit mass...
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