""As I have been saying all along here in this thread, it's not just an American problem.""

It's a matter of scale.

In Europe such events are so rare that the chance of any individual being shot is rather less than the chance of winning the Euromillions lottery.....twice!

In the USA mass shootings at schools are approaching the status of an annual tradition, and citizens don't feel safe unless they carry weapons.

It's a bigger and more frequent problem in the USA than in almost any other "civilised" nation.

The nation with the most guns per 100,000 population has the highest murder rate.

And please don't try the old Rwanda, Somalia etc. argument. These are not even semi civilised, and don't really rate the description "nations".

Don T.