Mastodawn

US small arms per 100 persons: 120
Portugal small arms per 100 persons: 20

US murder rate: 5.9 per 100,000
Portugal murder rate: 0.8 per 100,000

US mental health care system: for-profit, limited by insurance carriers
Portugal mental health care system: Single-payer public

Smart kid in Portugal gets scholarship to come to US, lives here 20 years, has mental breakdown, kills a professor and shoots up a university.

I don’t think the problem is immigration from Portugal. The problem is here.

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WesDym Dec 21

@Cdespinosa If Portugal was the problem, it would be much worse. I lived in Providence for years, and knew MANY Portuguese people, many 'right off the boat'. (I even had to learn some Portuguese, to get by. Though to my shame, I've forgotten most of it now.)

It's just a sad tragedy we might never understand, but I'm sure it had nothing to do with where this guy was from.

It's infuriating to me that people are even suggesting that.

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Chris Espinosa

@wesdym My lineage is from Portugal, and we got here around 1650, into Nueva España. We told the British that the Pope said it was ours in 1494. They didn’t listen.

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Chris Espinosa Dec 21

@wesdym (we did of course steal it from the dozens of civilizations that had been in North America for 14,000 years, but that was the Age of Exploration where it was trendy to claim you “discovered” a place people had lived for millennia)