One of the little girls in the kids classes at work is American

She was telling her classmates about school shootings (we're in Canada). My friend, who is the teacher, thought about stopping her, but decided they should know, so she let her go.

Poor girl has been through a few, and in one one of her friends was stabbed (not sure of the details).

So horrifying. I always felt pretty safe at school

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Longpatrol · 31-35, M

Toronto is known for it's gun violence too. I remember one particularly violent New Year Eve, I think there were something like 30+ firearm incidences

caccoon · 36-40

@Longpatrol true, we still have guns here and people use them. But I could count on one hand the amount of times I've actually seen a gun in person, and I've never heard one being fired.

(Except in the country, farmers and such).

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Longpatrol Very different phenomena though.

Mass shootings can show up anywhere and target anyone. Maybe there's some some patterns to analyze but idk them.

City violence is usually gang violence, and it's almost always between gangs. So if you're in that life it can be extremely violent, but if you're not its invisible.

There's no value judgement here, they're just not equivalent problems.

Also Toronto really isn't that violent. I spent ten years in Edmonton which has twice the murder rate and I never once saw a gun.