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MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 days agoeh… in my country firearms are illegal, yet somewhat available. heavy explosives/fireworks and WW2 grenades on the other hand… plentiful
Comment on Time to bash Americans again
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 days agoeh… in my country firearms are illegal, yet somewhat available. heavy explosives/fireworks and WW2 grenades on the other hand… plentiful
obinice@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The above chap hit the nail on the head in terms of the UK.
Sure, hardcore criminals can get their hands on a gun, but the sort of people who want to cause trouble at a school certainly don’t.
I went to one of the worst schools in the country and while some of our students did occasionally murder people out in their private lives (I lived in the biggest shit hole in the country - the government even said so), in the school itself the worst thing I ever saw was a pupil throwing a chair at a teacher. And that was incredibly rare and shocking.
A student did arson one of the maths rooms too but that was over the weekend when nobody was there. They really hated that teacher haha. We had to do the rest of the year’s maths lessons in the Hall. So weird.
But ya, that’s all the extreme cases, and they’re nowhere remotely near “gun” territory. That’s just insanity. I never felt unsafe in a school.