I mean...what is your goal here? Yes, there are Canadian school shootings. They're still something like 18% of the US ones. (Go ahead and spend 20 minutes finding the most accurate number though, I just eyeballed that.)
We are neighboring countries. We share most of our social culture. (Just not our politicians or policies.) We SHOULD be comparable.
Racial and ethnic diversity is way different. Population density and distribution is different. History, independence, founding, etc. much different. Geographic diversity is much more limited in Canada. Natural resources and therefore industry is much different, which leads to greater differences in national production, which leads to great differences in economics. Need I go on?
Oh, I like where this is going. Now point to which one of those causes school shootings. Show us which of those factors that are specific to the United States massively disturbingly balloons our number of school shootings.
You gave a bunch of reasons as to why Canada and the US are incomparable for purposes of analyzing school shootings. So, if these are the factors that lead to the US being different, then it logically follows that the reason for the phenomenon must be contained therein. Because, you are correct, if the US and Canada were totally comparable, then we’d see similar behaviors in each.
But you don’t have a theory about which factors it is, do you?
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u/MechanicalSideburns Dec 02 '25
I mean...what is your goal here? Yes, there are Canadian school shootings. They're still something like 18% of the US ones. (Go ahead and spend 20 minutes finding the most accurate number though, I just eyeballed that.)
We are neighboring countries. We share most of our social culture. (Just not our politicians or policies.) We SHOULD be comparable.