The only response anyone needs to Donald Trump and gun control in the US
Channel 4’s Jon Snow shared these figures in the wake of the latest high school massacre in which 17 people were killed in Florida.
ally@wildnestor
Feb 16
the number of school shootings that have happened since the year 2000 around the world:
ENGLAND: 0
GREECE: 1
NETHERLANDS: 1
SPAIN: 1
INDIA: 1
ARGENTINA: 1
RUSSIA: 1
CHINA: 3
MEXICO: 4
AUSTRALIA: 5
CANADA: 5
GERMANY: 5
SOUTH AFRICA: 5
USA 212— Jon Snow (@jonsnowC4) February 18, 2018
And it’s pretty much the only response anyone needs to Donald Trump and the issue of gun control and the US.
I assume the huge disparity here is because the other countries heavily arm their teachers 😔
— B (@goddammitbrian) February 18, 2018
Thoughts and prayers in these other countries must be stronger than in the US perhaps?
— Emma Lister (@HRGirly) February 18, 2018
And it reminded us of this, which went viral following yet another shooting in the US last year.
Number of Americans killed on battlefields in all wars in history:
1,396,733
Killed by firearms in the US since 1968:
1,516,863
(NYT)
— richard bacon (@richardpbacon) October 2, 2017
