For an entirely different reason, I was looking at the murder rates in Mexican cities Vs. American cities. Mexico City compares very well with the largest American cities at about 8.4/100,000 so that's ok. Out of curiosity, I looked at school shooting statistics (following the recent spate of school shootings), I looked at the figures around the world. To say that the numbers for America were shocking would be a massive understatement. First, lets for a minute discount school shooting prior to 1920.
Even then it makes no difference.
Canada: (pop 35 million) 44 people killed in school shootings (1881-2018)
Mexico: (pop 120 million ) 5 people killed in school shootings (2011-2018)
Europe: (pop 300 million) 120 people killed in school shootings (1913-2018)
America: (pop 350 million) 68 people were killed in school shootings...in the past 14 months...here
When I first started looking at the American list (which has a separate entry in Wikipedia) I had not seen the dates (all the way back to 1860s it turns out), but it goes for pages and pages...
On that note, have a good weekend
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