Today is the last day of school for kids in CZ. You see all of the kids (or parent, if walking them to school) carrying gifts (darky) for their teachers. A tradition. Only today they have a couple cops directing traffic on our road in front of the nearby school. Not sure, and they are never otherwise there. No need as school shootings are unheard of here. I looked it up and couldn't find even one that qualified as "mass shooting". They are there as mere crossing guards. Czech Republic is on an official list as the 8th safest country in the world, after 1. Iceland, 2. New Zealand, 3. Portugal, 4. Austria, 5. Denmark, 6. Canada, and 7. Singapore. See list here. Perhaps some factors may play a part, but still there is no feeling of fear here in the way there is in the US. The kids also have a freedom here that ones in the US had before the 1970s, after which fear movies even started being shown to kids in schools. I remember one. I know the whole situation is difficult to fully analyze, but to me it should be more, and more importantly, acted on in a better way than it is...or is not. Lord help it when someone in the US wants to try modeling some things after one of the above-mentioned top 7 (or maybe 6, since Singapore has severe methods).

Note: If you look at the website I linked to above, the safest are clearly the first list. The second at the bottom are surely the unsafest. I think the article writer accidentally left out the "un" in "unsafest". The US is in that list. What a shame! I contacted the website about that.