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Originally Posted by OneToughHerring
Actually these school attacks, it is a kind of American tradition, as horrible as that sounds. In US there are several attacks a year, when there is one attack in a country like Belgium it's a big tragedy. In US it's pretty much normal.
Question is, why do these attacks happen in the first place? Crazy people yes but why attack specifically schools?
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Perhaps the reason it seems so "normal" is because the population of the US is so large in comparison to the population of Belgium. More people = more sickos, but the percentage is probably not too different.
Edit : Everything "American" gets exaggerated because the country is so large. As of July, 2008 the population of the US is estimated to be 29 times that of the estimated population of Belgium. So if the US has 29 school killings for every one in Belgium, we'd be about even.