Yes and no.

We do have mass shootings, but we also live in a country in 330 million, but every mass shooting makes national news, so it seems far worse than it is. Also, most mass shootings are gang violence that get lumped in with what we normally consider “random mass shootings” to pump up the numbers and scare people.

Healthcare could definitely be better, but 67% of Americans are satisfied with their insurance. I would still much prefer a universal healthcare system.

Overall, America definitely has its ups and downs, but a lot of the “AMERICA BAD” rhetoric is just a reddit meme where they get rewarded for trashing it.

Trying to downplay the old gun violence again? There is still this though: www.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/…/index.html

And those numbers only go up to 2018. This year, we have already had as many school shootings by June as during the entire year of 2018: www.edweek.org/leadership/…/01

But yeah, I guess some people consider that ‘scare tactics’. smh

Yes, this is exactly what I was talking about:

www.npr.org/…/the-school-shootings-that-werent

This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, “nearly 240 schools … reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.” The number is far higher than most other estimates.

But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government’s Civil Rights Data Collection.

We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.

So what about statistics from the Center of Homeland Defense and Security? Probably also just inflated, right? nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/a01