People say "oh America is so bad it has so many school shootings" then you look at what counts as a school shooting and it's stuff that poses no danger to students and may not have even happened at a school.
But they don't. Look at the history e.g. on Wikipedia [0]. It tracks school shootings with >= 4 victims in the last 300 years.
To call 10 times in the last 10 years semi-regular is a stretch. Most of those didn't make it into the public consciousness. People will remember Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and Columbine, but those were 12, 18, and 26 years ago.
To call them large numbers of slain is a stretch, that Wikipedia article is events >= 4 deaths. Those 4 include perpetrators, the number of innocent victims is lower.
To call them children is a stretch, because a lot of the victims are adults/employees/shooters.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...
America has 38 times the population of Switzerland. If Switzerland was equally as dangerous you'd expect them to have 1/38th the events. That Wikipedia page lists 35 events. How many would we expect Switzerland to have? A bit less than 1, so either 1 or 0. That matches the observed data.
> And nobody cares about the exact number anyway outside the "nah we're fine" group, indeed they just want it safer.
Maybe they should. The chance for any student in America being killed in a school shooting is something like 1 in 10,000,000. That's around the chance of being killed by lightning. Not struck by lightning - that's a 10x more common 1 in 1,000,000 - but struck and killed by lightning.
How much effort to people put into not being killed by lightning? Not much other than knowing 'don't go outside in a thunderstorm'. The risk of school shootings should give students equal alarm.