Slobodan,
You asked: What is your obsession with America and its guns?
I told you, Australian television is dominated by American television. As I'm retired I get to watch a lot of it. There is a constant onslaught of gunfights, gun crime and brandishing guns.
As an ex teacher this headline "Since 2013, there have been at least 189 school shootings in America — an average of nearly one a week.' is alarming.
As Australia in an English Speaking country most of our news is from Britain and America. So we get to hear a lot from the two nations, there is no need for translation. Britain doesn't have a lot of gun problems. Except for Northern Ireland regular bobbies don't have guns. It does have other problems and Honour Killing is equally upsetting.
Europe has more mass shootings than the U.S.
As I wrote, we get very little news from Europe other than France, Germany and sometimes Italy.
France has had problems for quite some time due to its colonial activities. It has a very volatile population and has had so for a long time.
As I said the rest of Europe is a black hole on Australian television.
A quick look at the figures shows you're right. Eastern Europe seems to be a major problem. Australia has had minimal immigration from Eastern Europe. It doesn't report on it unless a country implodes or something major happens.
To be host if I think about Europe I only think about Western Europe of which nearly all of our European immigrants have come from.
So if you compare all of Europe with the USA then you are correct. If you take out Eastern Europe things seem to be a different.
Gun violence is abhorrent wherever it happens. Gun violence in America gains my attention by the nature of America's dominance of our media. Unfortunately – out of sight, out of mind.
Cheers,
"As I wrote, we get very little news from Europe other than France, Germany and sometimes Italy.
France has had problems for quite some time due to its colonial activities. It has a very volatile population and has had so for a long time.
As I said the rest of Europe is a black hole on Australian television."
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Tom, if you watch Britain's Sky News you would think that everything that happens happens only in
England.
Due to difficulties in getting the alternative BBC programmes on the tv (I have to go to the computer to watch BBC on the monitor, or connect up the cable to the tv in the sitting room), I have also been watch a lot of France 24 via the tv. It gives lots more pan-European news than do the UK stations - so insular - further explaining the easy slide into Brexit: you fear the unknown, and when it's just twenty miles away, there be dragons for sure!
Quite why European news seems so fixated with US elections is beyond me: perhaps it's just cheap tv soaps drama. However, it also shows that Britain is every bit as lousy in its idea of political campaigning as anywhere else: all about ad homs and little about anything else. Probably because all sides know how little they will actually be able to do should it be their turn to find power. Every party gets broken promises stuck in its face, so perhaps they all have become aware of the danger, and just attack each other instead of making more eventual easy ammunition for the other side.
Amazing how nobody even mentions the Liberals (or whatever they called themselves last time I looked), anymore; wouldn't surprise me if this will turn out to be the last throes of traditional Labour and the birth of the new will be a neo-Communist organization. It's already being mooted that the 'left' isn't actually interested in gaining office anymore (explaining broadly unelectable leaders), but absolutely interested in developng a rabid and extreme left. They don't need to win elections: they only need to disrupt the workplace, and have lots of experience and expertise in doing that already. Chaos is the name of the game.
It's said folks get what they let happen to them... as we found out.