And people still ask me, why don’t you go back to live in America.
Like why?
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It's not just the shootings, but the whole response to it.
Do I want to bring my kids to a country where they will likely be trained to believe that someone may come into their school in order to gun them down? Do I want to instill in then the idea that in their home culture, they have to actively train themselves and their classmates for a situation in which one or more people may hunt them down and kill them in cold blood?
When my family and about going back to America, I just tell them I can't imagine putting my kids into that kind of culture.
Another American tradition…
Yes, gang violence. This isn't a mass shooting, it's gangs fighting.
Fix society, and we won't have these issues.
It's telling that Indianapolis's response to a bunch of kids getting shot outside a shopping mall is to... checks notes... work to prevent kids from gathering in public.
No mention of finding ways to prevent kids from accessing guns. No mention of finding ways to address why someone wanted to shoot people in the first place. Let's just hide the kids so they can't be shot. Problem solved.
To me it's a little bit different when it's groups of people who want to murder each other for personal reasons, compared to a mentally ill person wanting to lash out at society by murdering indiscriminately. I wish we bothered to talk about them differently, since they illustrate different problems within society and will have different solutions.