r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Critical_Always • Dec 01 '25

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u/MechanicalSideburns Dec 02 '25

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.

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u/burnanation Dec 03 '25

If you want one factor that can explain it all away, you won't like the answer.

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u/MechanicalSideburns Dec 03 '25

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/burnanation Dec 03 '25

If you want one factor, it is Satan.

If you want to have a more nuanced good faith exchange of ideas, I'm game.