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for the next European who gets huffy about mass murders with guns being peculiarly or especially American...
Date: Apr 17, 2007 6:10 PM
http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/2007_04_15_archive.html#2815563305364369688

Just a Reminder, The Next Time A European Gets Huffy...

About these gun mass murders being an American problem. From BBC, April
26, 2002:

Eighteen people died when an expelled former pupil went on a
shooting spree at his school in the eastern German city of Erfurt.

Masked and dressed in black, the gunman walked through classrooms
killing 14 teachers, two schoolgirls and one of the first policemen on
the scene before taking his own life.

He was clothed completely in black and you could only see his eyes.

Pupils of the Gutenberg School spent four hours trapped inside
before police could declare the building safe.

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder described the massacre in the quiet
provincial city as "beyond the powers of the imagination".

And this account from the New York Times in 1995:

After murdering three relatives at home, a teen-ager walked to the
next village today and calmly opened fire on a quiet town square,
killing nine more people before turning the gun on himself.

The incident was the country's worst multiple killing since 1989.

"It was like he was hunting birds," said Guy Sintes, the owner of
a
cafe on the square in Cuers, a village near the Mediterranean port of
Toulon.

Television footage from the scene showed sidewalks and a car
spattered with blood and a bullet hole through a shop window.

"The people are devastated, totally traumatized," said the Mayor
of
Cuers, Guy Gigou. "The village is in shock.",

The boy was identified as Eric Borel, 16. The impetus for the
killings was unclear. His father died recently of cancer.

Neighbors, interviewed on French television, described him as
taciturn and said his room was plastered with posters of Hitler and
neo-Nazi themes.

From the Moscow Times:

GALI, Abkhazia -- One night in June at a lonely Russian post in the
small village of Sida, Sergeant Artur Vaganov, 22, of the Russian
peacekeeping force here, woke up to commit mass murder.

Very deliberately, he cut the post's communications, gathered
together all the weapons and opened fire on his fellow soldiers as they
slept in their bunks. He shot dead 10 men and wounded three more before
killing himself. The building was still awash with blood the next day,
eyewitnesses said.

And this 2002 Time article:

Last week's mass murder of eight city councilors in a Paris suburb
left not only a traumatized community and bereft survivors. Coming in
the thick of a presidential campaign, alsoit, set France searching for
political meaning in a fundamentally senseless act. Both major
candidates, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and President Jacques Chirac,
were on the scene before sun-up, condemning the attack in the same
words, as "a murderous folly." Yet by the end of the day the two sides
were enmeshed in a furious debate over the propriety of drawing any
connection between the desperate act of a deranged man and "insecurity,"
a central theme of the campaign. Then that deranged man, Richard Durn,
managed to commit suicide while in police custody, and the focus shifted
again. How could government be so dysfunctional as to allow the avowedly
homicidal and suicidal Durn to own and use guns and then make his
dramatic exit?

You want more examples to show that this is not peculiarly or even
especially American? See here.




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