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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After the shooting in Newtown, I seriously just wanted to move out of the US (my DH is from another country and we could move there).  That was just a knee-jerk reaction, and we didn't move.  There are so many great things about this country, but seriously, this is one of the dumbest, saddest, arrogant thing about this country.  Normally, I don't care what people from other countries think about us, but this one, I would agree.  Even after a massacre of little children, there's no political will to save our kids.  And yet, we are willing to risk our military service members to save children in other countries.  The intervention here doesn't require anyone to put their lives on the line.  WTF is wrong with some people in this country..like Joe the Plumber who stated that a few young children dying doesn't give anyone the right to take away his 2nd amendment.  [/quote]

This kind of stuff happens everywhere. Sometimes it's different weapons but same outcome. There are bombings in Spain and England, the killings in the restaurant in Afghanistan, the nightclub in Thailand, the mall in Kenya, etc. Where would you move where this doesn't happen? It's hard to police crazy people, or religious or political zealots. [/quote]

[b]Are you saying the US is like Afghanistan? [/b]You have to be kidding to compare the two.

Let's take the UK, since you mention it.  How many school bombings have you heard about there vs. how many school related shootings have we heard about here just in 2014 (and we're only half way through the year)?  My DW is from there, and she's told me a bit about this kind of thing. Years ago, apparently, there was a school shooting in Scotland.  That was enough for the gov't to put in very strict gun laws.  You really don't hear about school shootings in any other country developed country other than here.  Yes, there are stabbings in other countries, but a knife can do much less damage than an assault rifle.  That's just common sense.[/quote]

No, I'm asking where you planned to move to get away from random violence. No place seems to be particularly immune. It may not always be in schools but it can be anywhere. [/quote]

Homogenous prosperous societies tend to have less random violence.  [/quote]

The U.K. is far from homogenous.[/quote]

it is a [b]lot [/b]more homogenous than the US.

that said the UK is really shitty for non-gun crimes. B&E, Robbery, fighting, general 'yobbish' behavior as they would like to say. [/quote]

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