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A retired FBI agent on how to protect yourself during a mass shooting

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So we go from about 350 mass shootings to 650-700 per year, in a few years. What a beautiful country ! where you can go shopping quietly at the supermarket without being shot in the head at the checkout, or take your children quietly to school without them running for their lives at the end of class !

195 countries in the world, only one has this "mass shootings" culture, even specialized sites are created to talk about these phenomena.

They spend millions to make prevention on how to protect oneself in case one falls on a sick person who shoots at everything that moves, they take the problem in the other direction. It's a real shame, there will be more, more and more, destroyed parents, traumatized children, redundant speeches as always.

They've gotten to the point where teachers are forced to arm themselves, where students are doing drills to prevent these killings, even though there's a cop in every school, it's still ironic, the only country that does this is the only country that has so many problems.

Anyway, good luck, I hope they don't end up in heaven trying to buy a bag of potatoes.

Which puts our rate at #11 among nations. There are far worse places to live.

When I say "the only country" I don't include countries where you can't live at all, such as countries at war (Yemen, Somalia, Mali, Afghanistan, etc.), these are special cases, obviously it's worse to live there. I was talking about among the globalized and advanced countries, it's the only one that has this record and this culture of weapons, and this idea of literally killing people at random, I don't see that anywhere else. (excluding terrorist attacks that happen maybe once every x years in a country).

Finland? Brasil? Both are further up the list, per-capita.

This is a meme that won't die, that America is somehow the worst. The data doesn't support that.

It's probably because America gets in the news more often. Has more news organizations per-capita?

Simply enough. Doing it in real time not so much. Most people will panic even with training including myself being an old Marine. I know what to do but if my spouse gets hit I have less than a second to decide what to do; help my spouse and likely also get hit, go for the shooter or keep running. Add to it people yelling and screaming, kids crying and blood everywhere.

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