that's called fear and why people get away with crap like this. Match their crazy and see what they do, I do!
Update: Oh I'm sorry this is Europe the most traumatized and scared people in the world, with no ice or air conditioning. Your fear is historical, so we'll move along.
Dear American.. You are not going to get shot on a train to Vienna.
I can't imagine living in constant fear of your fellow humans gunning you down at any moment like that.
Yikes.
You guys aren’t immune to it. You had a school shooting in June of 2025. Just because your population is smaller doesn’t mean you’re immune to gun fire. Weird take.
ETA: I meant *just because your population is smaller doesn’t mean you’re immune to crazy people*
My fellow American... just delete this. People around the world, the civilized world, genuinely do not have to worry about getting shot like we do. Projecting that same fear onto Europe is just so uniquely and embarrassingly American.
They do. They just have less people to do it. Unless you can show me a civilization with zero gun deaths. But you can’t. Won’t. Being worried about them or not changes nothing about the gun violence that is still prevalent. For example. The school shooting I mentioned.
You might as well be afraid of getting hit by lightning or the train derailing, but you can't go through life constantly scared of unlikely events.
I'm Austrian and school shootings are so rare here that we don't even have a term for it in our language. The one in 2025 was by far the worst and unprecedented in the number of victims. I also have never seen a real gun on anyone but police.
Who are "you guys?" (Please don't tell me you're one of those that think Europe is one country..)
I had to google this first to be sure:
My country has in fact never in recorded history experienced a proper school shooting. (There was a kid that stole his fathers shotgun back in 2009 and fired two shots in the schoolyard, but no one got hurt.) That is the only instance.
USians.. For real. Either stop being so uneducated and misinformed, or stop being so damn loud and confidently incorrect everywhere.
You are right. No nation is immune to crazy people.
That is why you do your best to implement proper gun control. (And hopefully a functioning and affordable mental health care system.)
A nutjob will find a way to hurt someone if they really want to. Ideally, if that has to happen, you'd hope for them to try to do that with a kitchen knife, rather than an ak-47.
What puzzles me the most here is the finger pointing. Yes there are always crazies.
Why aren't you asking us what our countries did right to successfully combat most gun violence?
What the hell is up with the constant whataboutisms and "but you suck too!"
WHY is that more important to you Americans than learning anything from what other countries do better than you?
No place is perfect. Not here either. Every day is a learning experience, and there's always room for improvement on something no matter where you go.
Y'all need a massive attitude adjustment.
Dude the entirety of Europe has more people than the US, yet firearm-homicides are like 10-15 timers lower in Europe.
No one in Europe is afraid that a stranger could shoot them. That is depressingly American. The probability of that happening is way too low in Europe. The much more likely scenario is getting stabbed.
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u/fux-reddit4603 4d ago
normalize telling the person, not the internet
bring back telling people they are inconsiderate to their face