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The UK has 1/5th of the population of the US, and 12x the population of Minnesota.

The last school shooting was the Dunblane Massacre in 1996, which led to gun law changes, removing rights to have handguns and various semi-automatic weapons.

I'm not sure how many occurred before then, but the total number of mass shootings in the UK is low. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_... to get a feel for how rare this sort of attack is in any setting here in the UK.

So for the last 25 years we've had no school shootings. I believe the US as a whole has had >300 shootings so far this year, with >300 victims.



You clearly missed the sarcasm

> Minnesota hasn't had a major school shooting since August


Ok, i'll turn the sarcasm detector up a notch :)




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