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The scale and frequency is unique to the US.
And it's wild because the proof is in the wiki article you linked. Since 2000 there have been a total of 85 school shootings in all of Europe. The US (A single country) has had 630.
The problem is obviously significantly worse in the US.
I'll add to this that Europe has about 1.6 times the population of the US. This means that Europe has roughly one school shooting for every 12 incidents in the US when corrected for population.
If Europe had school shootings at a rate similar to the US, there would have been on average 40 incidents per year. That is: about one school shooting every week of school since year 2000. I can't even imagine going to school knowing that and wondering if my school is the one that's going to be shot up this week.
Y'all almost seem proud of it, to the point that acknowledging other places can have the same problem, is anger inducing?