Comment by lazide
9 months ago
There really aren’t mass shootings every day, unless you expand the criteria to absurd degrees.
And unless you go to very specific urban areas, or are involved in the drug trade, your risk of getting shot is incredibly low.
The ‘wtf factor’ with US immigration and gov’t behavior is definitely driving everyone crazy though.
My mistake. More than one a day on average: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
We don't need to debate over "what is a mass shooting" in Canada or Europe.
Also, please don't discount my stated number one reason: daily threats to the sovereignty of my country. Too many Americans don't seem to even notice or care about how serious that is.
> Too many Americans don't seem to even notice or care about how serious that is.
I grew up a short distance from the Canadian border in a little town called Kalispell Montana, so I met quite a few Canadian tourists in my younger years, and I personally find it heinous to treat your nation that way. Every single Canadian tourist I ever met was friendly and polite. Downright decent folk overall. Now, I know there's arseholes in Canada same as anywhere, but I suspect as a nation they're largely pretty un-deserving of Trump's insanity affecting them in any way. Sadly, he's convinced he and Musk are King and Emperor of the world. (I don't think they necessarily agree on which is which.)
Thanks.
I definitely notice and care how serious it is. Knowing what is going on, frankly Canada should be doing conscriptions and switching to a wartime economy. Hope is your enemy with someone like Trump.
But ‘that doesn’t make sense’ (except, if we don’t ignore the obvious truth, it definitely does), so we’re all going to pretend it’s just Sabre rattling and rage baiting. Because no one wants to take the hit for something that ‘should never happen’.
Which it kind of is, but isn’t really. It’s infuriating, as is the inaction, but that’s why it works/happens.
And part of why it works/happens is the escalating ridiculousness for the last 5-10 years overall in the media when it comes to hitting outrage buttons.
For instance, on the mass shooting side, depending on how you count, there were between 103-706 killed in ‘mass shootings’ in the US in 2021 [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting], out of a country of 350 million. 103 per the FBI, 706 per some action group I can’t remember.
You’re roughly as likely to die of a lightning strike (or more likely to die from lightning), as be involved in a mass shooting. Yet, it gets endless airtime - which the media admits even just makes the problem worse. [https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2016/08/media-contag...]
And endless goal post shifting of even what the definition is, so that the problem grows and grows.
Meanwhile, we ignore actual problems.