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bottom line...shooting = bad
we all agree on that, no
YEAH

"when this sort of thing happens, it pretty much always seems to be in the US", rather than "this goes on every day in America".

2) When he said "this sort of thing", I assume he meant school shootings. Other people can maybe argue over what they are if they like.

3) If I'm right in these assumptions, it's hard to disagree with him that it certainly seems this way - although this may well be due to theguywithnousername's 2nd point below.

4) A (very) rough estimate of the percentage he mentions could be obtained from this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shootings As you can see, it's pretty much all US-centred, but whether that's because of wikipedia being US-centric or because more school shootings occur there is impossible to say (I guess it's a bit of both). Certainly if you take the "notable school shootings" section as a guide, it lists 113 in the US, 11 in Canada, 17 in Europe, and 12 in South America, Asia and Australia, giving a US share of 73.9%

5) Since this is therefore an understandable (if perhaps inaccurate) perception, I think it's a fair question. My answers to it would, I guess, have been exactly the four mentioned below, but then I'm not an expert and there may well be others.

6) Without getting on the high horse he mentioned*, I think this might all be more appropriate in a separate thread.

*Ok, I clearly am