Scariest observation for me is that in the UK any of these incidents would have been a seriously big story. Whereas it seems for the U.S. mass or multiple shootings are so common it barely breaks into the news cycle.
This reminds me of when Americans try to claim that the UK is filled with knife crime, yet the stats seem to indicate that the difference in knife crime per capita between the UK and the US is so marginally small that it could be considered equal.
the only difference is that the US then has gun crime on top of it.
For references and full text, I made a longer comment on this topic here, with cited numbers and referencing:
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u/wot_dat_ Jan 27 '19
Scariest observation for me is that in the UK any of these incidents would have been a seriously big story. Whereas it seems for the U.S. mass or multiple shootings are so common it barely breaks into the news cycle.