School shooting in Europe: A tragedy
School shooting in America: A Tuesday
Pssh, like we only do 1 a week
Closer to a day. 288 this year, but school’s out, so we’ll just have some mall and church shootings to close out the season.
I was in Auckland, NZ when there was an active shooter in late July and the whole city was on alert. I was expecting an American style mass shooting based on the number of sirens I heard outside. When I found out it was a disgruntled employee who shot 2 coworkers I thought “Oh, that’s just a Tuesday in America”
Yeah, except the Czech Republic will probably take meaningful steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again
Considering they have a semi-2a already, doubt they will. And I hope they don’t and get further pro-2a…russia is near.
Types 2a because they can’t spell ammendment
That’s because the education system would be better run by a crack head.
Fuck, just wait until they come up with a bump-stock-2A
Well, a special parliament meeting has been called already. Our constitution is quite malleable and I think most parties will agree on stricter gun laws. The gun was legally carried by the perpetrator after all, despite his mental instability and online posts suggesting he premeditated the act.
Also, I expect more training at schools: the killer killed his father first before heading to the faculty, and they had been warned. A partial evacuation was conducted but turned out to be ineffective.
Yep, your constitution is not like the USAs which requires a lot of support from 2/3rds of the states to be ratified.
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What possible correlation could there be? If only we could comprehend this complex issue.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-shootings-by-country
One shooting in a country is not proof that the right to bear arms is a public danger. As one might note from the equally isolated incidents in the countries without the right.
288 school shootings in a country that is hardly alone in that right is instead proof of a cultural disease.
A cultural disease that would be inhibited by strong gun restrictions
It raises an interesting point: if the US cracked down super hard on guns but didn’t address the underlying social problems, would people just turn to a different type of violence? Whst would that be? Would you suddenly get all of the would-be shooters committing acid attacks instead?
One argument I’ve seen against gun restrictions is that you’d be more reliant on the police force which is largely a corrupt gang of stupid bullies with both guns and the impunity to commit murder. I’m for enacting stronger restrictions but this point is difficult for me to refute.
Before or after the civil war you’d get for trying to disarm a population with more guns than people?
In any event, if you assume it happened magically you’d probably just get mass stabbings that are, at least, easier to stop and have lower body counts.
God, just imagine if all the gun fetishists became knife fetishists overnight, they’re already creepy enough.
Nah this is a bad take.
Gun law is complicated, they can definitely be used to enhance the violence someone with ill intent can do but social conflicts generally drive it. I mean I’m aussie, we have a fair bit of gun control but still basically anyone who isn’t a drongo can get one (although atm I’m in appeals because apparently ADHD precludes me lmao, yep defs don’t want shooters getting mental health treatment! Should encourage them to hide it!). We actually have quite a few, almost all bolt/lever action rifles but. Handguns have a lot of commitment and training required which is reasonable since they’re for target shooting and people murdering.
We have social issues involving violence, mostly femicide DV stuff, we don’t really have the shooters. We don’t get the stuff like acid attacks or stabbings that you get over in like the UK or whatever. Someone can do a shitload of harm with lots of thing, a slow firing rifle isn’t substantially more dangerous than a car, improv bomb, or crude chemical weapon.
Nah, this is a bad take.
There’s an obvious connection to guns being easily available and mass shootings.
In the trivial sense, in that you need access to guns to do mass shootings sure
But it’s way more complex. The USA is absolutely insane in how available they are, you can just fucking buy one off the shelf without a waiting period etc. You can often carry it everywhere, you can also access absolutely bonkers weapons like semi and fully automatic rifles designed to kill humans in war.
But guns are easily available in Australia: you do a 4 hour training course, pay about 100 bucks and fill out a form, say you have a safe place to store them (it’ll be checked in the next year or so), and about 2 months later you can have one. It’s easier than getting a license for a car! Our last mass shooting with more than 10 dead was 1996 and 10 wounded was 1999.
The USA has about 10x the guns per person but has mass shootings all the time, as well as tremendously more violence in general.
Fucking iceland has about 1/4 the guns per person of the USA and approx twice aus with similar laws and their last mass shooting was like 2005 or something?
The UK has like 1/3 as many guns per person as aus but is a waaaaay more dangerous place in terms of violent crime and even restricting it to guns comparing the same casualties for aus it’s 2010 and 2018 respectively
But guns are easily available in Australia: you do a 4 hour training course, pay about 100 bucks and fill out a form, say you have a safe place to store them (it’ll be checked in the next year or so), and about 2 months later you can have one
That’s not “easily available”. That’s technically available, but difficult to get. Is there anything, other than a driver’s license, that requires that much time, effort and investment?
Getting a mortgage? Getting fit? opening a business? having a child? modifying a car? building an extension? getting vaccinated for travel?
Loads of things require more effort and cost that people do with similar or longer time frames. Nobody would say “it’s technically possible but difficult to build a shed” but you’ve gotta go back and forth with council approval, the builder, contractors etc yet almost every house has one.
edit: also in case you’re not familiar a driver’s licence here requires 120 hours supervised driving, 20 at night, one knowledge test, one hazard perception test, a driving test, 3 years probation with zero tolerance and reduced speed limits (on the first year you can’t even take multiple passengers at night). It is not even in the same league as a gun licence yet almost everyone has one and nobody claims they’re difficult to get.
Even a motorcycle license requires a 2 day training course, a test, 1 year learning and another test, then 3 years probation. They’re considered super easy to get! It costs more and takes longer than a gun licence.
There are millions of car/bike licences, clearly it’s not the licencing requirements stopping people from getting guns.
Getting a mortgage?
Involves a mandatory 2 month waiting period?
Getting fit?
How is that relevant?
opening a business?
Takes more than 2 months to do the paperwork?
having a child?
Again, how is that relevant?
getting vaccinated for travel?
More than 2 months?
Even a motorcycle license requires a 2 day training course, a test, 1 year learning and another test, then 3 years probation. They’re considered super easy to get!
By whom? Lunatics?
There are millions of car/bike licences
Because it’s a tool that’s extremely useful, that many people have to use multiple times per day. It would be extremely difficult to get through modern life without transportation, but guns have no real use in daily life.
There is no justification for having easy access to guns in the public. If citizens feel so unsafe in their homes that they think it’s necessary, then there is a structural problem
Sorry, how does this follow? Most countries allow access to firearms. while we can question the validity of the concept of a country; this presumably communicates that most people don’t feel it’s absurd to have access to firearms.
They are just machines, some are designed as human killers and I would agree that access to those is generally bad. Some are for target practice, some are for killing non humans which I find abhorrent but understand is part of the world for now, some are pure silly fun in the same way fast motorcycles are.
When talking about firearms you need to talk about a certain category because banning them all is as silly as banning drugs or banning stump remover because it’s trivial to make a crude incendiary from it.
What was that thing with “Under no pretext” I’m sure that it’s not that important
There was a mass shooting at Uni Heidelberg last year
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Oh wow!
Now we have a total of 40 school shootings in Europe … since 1900.
The States do that in like what, two weeks?
No, but definitely in less than one year.
I love how the Wikipedia article only lists the most horrific school shootings in the US, since it is too much work to list all of them.
USA! USA! USA!
I had to actually read an article to make sure it wasn’t Prague, Wisconsin or some nonsense.
Prague WI definitely doesn’t have a university. If I remember right Prague WI doesn’t even have a gas station.
I just naturally assumed I’d misread and that it was something to do with PragerU.
I am Czech and I hate their name more than people calling us Eastern Europe. They have nothing to do with the prestigious Charles University or any other institution in Prague. Even worse, “Prager” roughly means “Prague (adj)” in German and possibly other languages.
Central Europe: a term invented by eastern European countries that don’t like getting called eastern
We are at 15°E, which is the meridian of Central European Time. Our culture is way closer to Germans than Russians. And would you call Dresden Eastern Europe?
But yes, there is some divide so if you need to draw the line somewhere, it makes sense to split ethnically Slavic and Germanic countries so I see a reason behind that. There is no such justification for PragerU’s name choice.
The term western and eastern Europe have always been political, never geographical. This is why Czechia is eastern, because it used to be part of the socialist dictatorships. Another example: Russia is geographically European* but politically a fascist shithole.
* Inb4 Russia is also in Asia: yes, but none of the parts that actually matter for Russia culturally or economically
His online diary or manifesto whatever was already posted on 4chan, just on like Dec. 10 he was debating if he wanted to be a serial killer that kills one at a time or mass shooter. Long story short, he was going to do some fucked up shit no matter what.
Its not funny…
gal·lows hu·mor /ˈɡalōz ˈ(h)yo͞omər/ noun
grim and ironic humor in a desperate or hopeless situation.
Easy answer. Used too much. An especially weak argument when the one finding it “funny” is never from the area it’s happening in, and thus doesn’t actually have any emotional connection they’re needing to cope with.
You know there are still a couple recordings floating around from people who had tried to call family and/or 911 prior to dying in 9/11? I’ve found anyone who listens to those seems to stop making the 9/11 jokes. Strikes me odd. Must have made it real.
I mean, I may not have any connection to Prague, but as an American citizen who has been shot at, I think I have enough of an emotional connection to gun violence. I still chuckled.
I studied at this university and work real close to it. Chuckled too.
I’ve listened to those recordings, and I still make 911 jokes. Reading the room and compartmentalization are things that go along with Gallows humour, but its generally accepted that the internet is a space where thick skin is needed, because its impossible to know the situation of literally every stranger who’ll end up eying your comments
Good people joke to cope with the absurdity of our society’s tolerance of it and our fellow citizens demanding it stay this way so they can selfishly keep their pew pews.
It happens all the time. We live in morbid times. The sane can cry about it, be numb to it, or laugh the absurdity of it, because we have no recourse to address it. The ignorant rugged individuals that don’t want a society have spoken.
Shooting each other like dogs when we aren’t exploiting eachother for private profit is who we are and I’m ashamed of it, would you rather people horrified of this reality find a coping mechanism to get through the day like dark humor, or just kill ourselves so as not to offend?
I’m worried that if I legit stopped laughing about it, I’d become a gun statistic myself.
Big /s on this one. No suicidal or homicidal ideations, but man, am I floored by kindergarten rhymes about lockdowns and having gotten 2 lockdown notifications from my 11-year-olds school in last month (neither were active shooters but when the message subject is just "lockdown’ there’s that moment where you just don’t know)
We chose guns over them. I intend to tell my child that when they reach the age of reason. Some individuals like me did not, but overall society says that their ability to buy unlimited murder toys is more important than their life. That is what our society values. This is who we are.
I will tell them this because it is true, and they need to operate in the world as it is, not as I would like it to be. I will also tell them that is an example of how important it is NOT to allow what society believes to dictate what they believe, as most of what our society believes is cruel and exploitative, and I hope that’s not who they want to be.
I am Czech and jokes about it are circulating already. We take pride in our dark humor, fostered during our perilous 20ᵗʰ century.
I’m Czech and our culture prides itself in gallows humor.
Way to make the year’s darkest day even darker!
“You can accept that things are awful and still have a sense of humor about it.” - Daniel Tosh
You need a sense of humor about things.
There’s the quote,
Laugh to keep from crying
it’s not funny, it’s absurd.
"Wait a minute,
They have guns in other countries?"
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is about as difficult and costly as getting a drivers license.
Note that German driver’s licenses are notoriously difficult to get by the standards of most other countries, especially the US.
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I’d like to add that a driver’s licence in germany costs 2000€ and you can’t get it at school lol
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That’s news to me.
Italy? France?
Prague
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