OMFG, rest-of-the-world! DO NOT DO WHAT WE DO HERE!!! It does not work, it never has and it never will!
Canada, be better than us. Come on!
Unfortunately, we aren’t. But we have fewer guns.
In this case, though, the shooter had a number of long guns and handguns registered to him, which should have been a red flag.
BBC News - Children among several stabbed in south-eastern France
Police intervened and the perpetrator was shot in the legs.
Please note this, American gun nuts. Because this is standard doctrine in most of Europe, but every time I mention it as an alternative to deadly violence in such situations I am told this would never work. Despite it being, again, taught and practiced in many countries.
Think of it this way: this thread was started in December of 2020. Two and a half years later, there are 52 posts.
The US mass murder thread averages that many per day, probably.
A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three people were found dead in Nottingham city centre early on Tuesday morning, Nottinghamshire Police say.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65888114
I think there’s a slight under reporting happening in the US thread and a massive one here. Much of the world never gets a look in, including some of the most violent places on Earth.
In three different streets in the city centre. Not one horrific moment, but three, connected ones.
BBC News - Nottingham attacks: What we know so far
Today, an 18-year-old trainee undergoing basic training to join the Japanese Ground Self Defense Forces (the equivalent of an army) opened fire on on-base personnel with an automatic weapon at a practice firing range in Gifu, killing two and injuring one. He was wrestled to the ground and placed under arrest.
Fake News! everybody in there was armed. So it was full of good guys with a gun.
