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I don't think there would be any schools left to shoot if that happened.

 

The problem here, though, is that America doesn't need better charter schools. We need a better public school system, as most public schools are really the only option for the majority of students in America. Conditions are honestly awful in most of them, especially in larger cities like Los Angeles and New York. Even if DeVos is as talented as you say in terms of improving a single school or even masses of charter schools, this is excluding the needs of the majority of the nation's students.

And it's really not as simple as moving kids into charter schools, it's a waste of resources to move students or build newer, better schools when there are thousands of schools that are desperate for improvement. So many kids come out of American school practically illiterate, we rank less than 40th in both reading and mathematics standardized tests in the world for a reason.

So I can appreciate improvement in any regard, but we need it in a different area than what DeVos can provide.

As for the guns, at this point it's really just a matter of opinion. I wouldn't say that the argument that we need guns because they're killing us in the first place makes much sense, but everyone is entitled to their opinions...

 

Excluding suicides (still, however, including gang violence) the statistics are (for homocides per 100,000):

USA (2014) : 3.43
Australia (2013): 0.16
Denmark (2011): 0.22

Gun ownership per 100 citizens:

USA: 112.6
Australia: 21.7
Denmark: 12

The USA, which has a much higher rate of gun ownership, obviously has a much higher gun homocide rate as a result. However, this correlation continues into total homocides (per 100,000):

USA (2013): 3.9
Australia (2014): 1.0
Denmark (2014): 1.0

Are you trying to say that the amount of guns in the USA isn't a major reason that the homocide rate in the US is significantly higher than Australia and Denmark?

 

Robberies per 100,000 people in Texas in 2014 - 130

Robberies per 100,000 people in Australia in 2014 - 42

 

Dude, I'm about as republican as it goes, but thats probably the worst way of thinking in the world.

 

This entire post is full of ignorant kids who have never held a gun. I can slaughter this entire thread but its literally not worth my time. lmao.