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Living in those types of places shouldn't be the benchmark for living in a first world country. I'm not saying that where I'm living is perfect, far from it. I'm saying that despite the fact that I could make far more money in the U.S as a programmer, I couldn't live there because I wouldn't want to live somewhere that continues to allow this to happen.

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I can't reply to you anymore unfortunately but: Where's the right place? when is the right time? I'm not trying to make this about me, I'm trying to understand a completely foreign concept to me. Unprovoked mass shootings seem to be a very regular occurrence for years now, and yet until the recent one in Parkland there doesn't seem to be an appetite for change.

Statistically, you are more likely to die from a mass murderer in Western Europe than in the USA. In both places the chances are vanishingly small and people can still live without fear.

What does "allowing to happen" mean? Why are the US & EU complicit in the cases of mass killers? Criminal justice is post-facto, and unfortunately any sort of preventative measures (profiling, banning, surveilling) infringe on human rights.

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