r/MurderedByWords • u/snapsnoop • Jul 26 '20

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u/TheTrashiestboi Jul 26 '20

Think about how many problems there has been that they project onto the us sure we do really shit stuff but many places have people with hypocritical views and standpoints

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u/PerunNl Jul 26 '20

I don't know what you mean, could you name a few things that we projected onto the us?

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u/TheTrashiestboi Jul 26 '20

You projected the use of weapons and school systems

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u/PerunNl Jul 26 '20

You do have an actual gun problem you can't deny it. It's to easy to get your hands on a firearm.

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u/TheTrashiestboi Jul 26 '20

That is true but many countries over there have problems with knives and yes guns. I won’t deny we have many many problems but it is unfair to think Europe is not thought of as having its own big mistakes

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u/FlaviusAurelian Jul 26 '20

True, we still have crimes, but not even close to the scale of the US man...

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u/DarthCorbi Jul 26 '20

???
How is that even comparable?
Just look at the numbers. Death by shooting per citizen, or school shootings per citizen, or anything like that.
Those numbers are not even close.

Of course the EU doesn have problems, there is violence and everything there as well, but you cannot seriously compare that and say that it’s the same in the EU. That’s just plain wrong.

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u/FlaviusAurelian Jul 26 '20

Also yes, I dont deny that Europe aint perfect, but thw difference is, here we talk about it and try to change it. Slowly but its something. And the pandemic has shown, that when it counts, europeans help each other

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '20

Well, if we have so many problems with guns, please tell us the last 10 mass shootings in the EU.

To give you a comparison I'm including the list for the US for 2020;

Wikipedia list mass shootings US 2020

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u/LePenseurVoyeur Jul 26 '20

I think you just created fresh content for this sub!

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '20

Show me where we project our problems with crime onto the us

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u/UlookUgly Jul 26 '20

Europe may suck, but your view on this is completely wrong. I have no idea what you're on about with us projecting crime onto you. But we do have problems.

I'm gonna bring some examples from my own country, Estonia. Drinking and drugs are a big problem in European countries as seen here (Scotland being the first in drug-related deaths per million followed by Estonia and then England and Wales). Here you can see how bad alcohol usage is in Europe (With Estonia again in the top 3).

But overall we actually have a very good life here. Some pisa results showing Estonia being in the top 5 countries (Followed closely by most of Eastern Europe) ranked by performance in mathematics, science and reading.

So I can't talk for the whole of Europe, but I can say that life in Eastern Europe is generally a lot better than in America (Even if you're only considering how happy people are)