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Why do school shootings happen mostly in the developed world?

nublikescake

nublikescake

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Gun crime is a problem in many parts of the world (Mexico, Jamaica to name a few) but it seems that the developed world (U.S., Canada, Europe) has an unhealthy obsession with school shootings.

Has there ever been a good explanation put forward by someone on this issue?
 
Originally posted by: nublikescake
Gun crime is a problem in many parts of the world (Mexico, Jamaica to name a few) but it seems that the developed world (U.S., Canada, Europe) has an unhealthy obsession with school shootings.

Has there ever been a good explanation put forward by someone on this issue?
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No one cares if poor kids in shitty countries get shot.
 
Originally posted by: darkxshade
Because there are no schools in poverty stricken countries?
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or the kids in schools in the "third world" haven't been raised to by whiny little emo bitches?
 
Yea undeveloped countries do not have school...or school ends at 6th grade... Only people who want to be learning are there, there is not as much forced attendance....Less developed countries have less access to the crap you see on TV most of the time, less pop culture, family is more important so there is less loner syndrome, I could go on and on but you get the point right.
 
There isn't any peer pressure or expectations kids have to live up to. Also there are no bullies in undeveloped countries, just murderers.

And yeah, what darkxshade said, there are no schools to begin with in undeveloped countries.

Also, they don't have satanic music like acid rock, hard core rap or...god forbid...country music.
 
I wonder if school murders are really any less overall. The media skips over a lot of stuff in poorer countries. I remember checking out the foreign Yahoo sites a few weeks back and seeing pictures of a massacre in Madagascar that left over 20 dead, and could not find any trace of it on the U.S. site.
 
eh, bored, self-important angsty teens feel threatened when their Wii priveldges are revoked. So they act out in bloody rampages.

Also, bear in mind that school shootings, such as the ones you are referring to, are a suburban issue--not so much an inner-city one. (usually gang-related, specific targets)
 
Originally posted by: nublikescake
Gun crime is a problem in many parts of the world (Mexico, Jamaica to name a few) but it seems that the developed world (U.S., Canada, Europe) has an unhealthy obsession with school shootings.

Has there ever been a good explanation put forward by someone on this issue?
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Probably because we have a western based media that is biased towards reporting on western based stories?

In some parts of the world school shootings may be overshadowed by civil strife where hundreds or thousands are killed.
 
Originally posted by: MrWizzard
Yea undeveloped countries do not have school...or school ends at 6th grade... Only people who want to be learning are there, there is not as much forced attendance....Less developed countries have less access to the crap you see on TV most of the time, less pop culture, family is more important so there is less loner syndrome, I could go on and on but you get the point right.
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India would not be classified as a "developed" country in the same league as the U.S. or Canada for example but it has more schools than the U.S., more university graduates and more students in general. Of course that's because it's much more populous than the United States but school shootings there are almost non-existent compared to the developed world.

Originally posted by: MrWizzard
Less developed countries have less access to the crap you see on TV most of the time, less pop culture, family is more important so there is less loner syndrome, I could go on and on but you get the point right.
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This may be partly to blame. The number of schools argument really makes no sense.
 
Do those other countries declare schools to be "gun free zones" like in the US? Perhaps the public advertising (if you will) of a large, unarmed population of potential victims is just more than these whack jobs can resist.
 
Originally posted by: nublikescake
Originally posted by: MrWizzard
Yea undeveloped countries do not have school...or school ends at 6th grade... Only people who want to be learning are there, there is not as much forced attendance....Less developed countries have less access to the crap you see on TV most of the time, less pop culture, family is more important so there is less loner syndrome, I could go on and on but you get the point right.
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India would not be classified as a "developed" country in the same league as the U.S. or Canada for example but it has more schools than the U.S., more university graduates and more students in general. Of course that's because it's much more populous than the United States but school shootings there are almost non-existent compared to the developed world.
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HUGE difference in culture though, you have a bunch of people who WANT to go the school and want to be successful.

In some developed countries you got spoiled rotten kids with self entitlement who want all the success at none of the cost....TOTALLY different outlooks in life. Which goes back to my point. Almost everyone there wants to go to school and work hard. Starting out in poverty makes you a whole lot more thankful for just basic school or the fact you get to go. A lot of American kids are born with a silver spoon in there mouth and it's all about me me mine me mine.


 
Because we don't hack off 10,000 heads per night like undeveloped would when they get going?
 
For the same reason you don't see emo or goth kids in undeveloped countries. They have better things to worry about than getting obsessed with their emotions.
 
They do happen in the third world - just for different reasons. I know a girl from Siera Leone who tells me she regularly had to hide under her school desk from rifle bullets flying overhead. It would be fairly counterproductive for kids like that to start shooting eachother when there are so many other people to do it for them.

Originally posted by: JDMnAR1
Do those other countries declare schools to be "gun free zones" like in the US? Perhaps the public advertising (if you will) of a large, unarmed population of potential victims is just more than these whack jobs can resist.
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I can assure you that America is the only country in the world where you can find people who think more children should be armed.
 
You can generalize that there are two reasons why people commit crimes: they are crazy or desperate. The crime you might see in a third world country is usually related to being poor, so it might be theft of food, or assault (to steal someone's possessions). When you are in a developed country and don't really have to worry about survival, you are able to commit crazy crimes. Besides the *small* number of exceptions, almost all serial murders, mass shootings, etc are done by crazy and often white people.
 
b/c maybe in the developing world people have actual problems?

like lack of education, lack of food, lack of clean water?

instead of these emo dorks (no one understands me, no one likes me!!! wahhh) with anger management issues.
 
Well one could argue that non-developed countries do not have a strong school system and as such violence is, unfortunately, par for the course.

Great Sudan may not have school shootings, but they got that entire ethnic cleansing thing in Darfur going on.
 
Well, aside from the lack of schools mentioned - it's a lot harder for people with no income to go out and buy a gun and leave it laying around for kids to take to school.
 
Guns are pretty expensive. I think that if guns were easily accessible for the majority of the population, those countries would be even more hellish. Guns and starving people is a recipe for disaster.
 
Originally posted by: Atheus
They do happen in the third world - just for different reasons. I know a girl from Siera Leone who tells me she regularly had to hide under her school desk from rifle bullets flying overhead. It would be fairly counterproductive for kids like that to start shooting eachother when there are so many other people to do it for them.

Originally posted by: JDMnAR1
Do those other countries declare schools to be "gun free zones" like in the US? Perhaps the public advertising (if you will) of a large, unarmed population of potential victims is just more than these whack jobs can resist.
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I can assure you that America is the only country in the world where you can find people who think more children should be armed.
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Yeah, cause lord knows those are children up there teaching those classes and handling all of the administrative duties in your typical US school. :roll: We entrust them with our children for roughly 15-20% of the week while they are school aged, so why can't we trust them with their safety, assuming proper training, background checks, etc.?
 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
You can generalize that there are two reasons why people commit crimes: they are crazy or desperate. The crime you might see in a third world country is usually related to being poor, so it might be theft of food, or assault (to steal someone's possessions). When you are in a developed country and don't really have to worry about survival, you are able to commit crazy crimes. Besides the *small* number of exceptions, almost all serial murders, mass shootings, etc are done by crazy and often white people.
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Makes sense. Still can't believe the number of asinine replies in this thread.

Originally posted by: savoyboy
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What's that got to do with the topic? I'm talking about SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, not the exploitation of children in wars. I never said that underdeveloped countries don't have other problems or that murder rates in such countries are lower than the developed world. Even if it's the opposite, i.e. murder rates being much higher in underdeveloped countries, school shootings as a phenomenon, are almost non-existent outside the developed world.
 
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