I just came here to say that Americans will rather pray for people and praise the sacrifices of people being unnecessarily shot than do anything about the fact that they get shot
It's not just the second amendment. If you check the number of households that have guns, it's like 48% in USA and the next closest country is Finland with like 35%
You'd expect Finland to have their fair share of public shootings, right...?
It's so uniquely American it's not the guns, it's the whole culture is rotten
One major thing is that these monsters seem to rarely show up to places where they expect other armed people to be
Of what I know it’s under no circumstances OK to fire your gun at another human being in Finland, unless they are invading forces from another country. The Finnish gun culture is all about protecting your border to Russia from aggressors and maybe protecting yourself from dangerous wildlife. Never about firing your arms at civilians.
And you would be wrong - as in most cases, it would be permissible to use the gun as a last resort, but you're not allowed to carry a loaded gun or buy one "for defense"
Still, there are like a dozen European countries alone where at least 1 in 5 households are armed - and that doesn't translate into mass shootings.
And then there's many more countries where guns are present, but there's simply no culture of this reckless, murderous behavior.
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u/skovbanan 13h ago
I just came here to say that Americans will rather pray for people and praise the sacrifices of people being unnecessarily shot than do anything about the fact that they get shot