this doesnt happen anywhere else....
2006-10-02 14:28:59 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Just to prove your ignorance:
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.
Scotland, March 1996: Gun enthusiast Thomas Hamilton shoots 16 children and their teacher dead at their primary school in Dunblane, Scotland before killing himself.
Yemen, March 1997: A man with an assault rifle attacked hundreds of pupils at two schools in Sanaa, Yemen, killing six children and two others. He was sentenced to death the next day.
Germany, November 1999: A 15-year-old student in Meissen, eastern Germany, stabbed his teacher to death after taking bets from classmates he would dare commit the crime.
Germany, March 2000: A 16-year-old pupil at a private boarding school in the Bavarian town of Branneburg, shot a 57-year-old teacher, who later died from injuries. The teenager - who also shot himself - was facing expulsion from school after failing a cannabis test.
Germany, February 2002: A former pupil killed his headmaster and set off pipe bombs in the technical school he had recently been expelled from in Freising near Munich. The man also shot dead his boss and a foreman at the company he worked for before turning the gun on himself. Another teacher was shot in the face, but survived.
In December 1989 a gunman shot and killed 14 young women in Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, before turning the gun on himself.
September 13, 2006 At least one gunman has opened fire inside a Montreal school with early reports claiming four people had died. Television footage showed students fleeing from the campus of Dawson College and a pool of blood on the front steps of the college. Initial reports are sketchy amid the subesquent chaotic scenes. Some claimed up to three gunman may have opened fire. One attacker appeared to have committed suicide and another was shot dead by police, RDI Television network said. Montreal General Hospital said it had admitted 12 patients - six critical, two serious and four stable.
One high school student has been killed and another seriously injured in a shooting at a school in Alberta, Canada. The BBC's Ed Campbell: It appears to have been a copycat of the US attack. Reports said a 14-year-old youth wearing a blue trenchcoat marched into the school wielding a sawn-off .22 calibre rifle. Some of the students immediately lay down on the floor and others stacked desks one on top of the other to create a protective barricade. The suspect reportedly held the shotgun to a teacher's head before randomly shooting his two victims.
2006-10-02 15:18:25 · answer #1 · answered by dh1977 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tell me something, is ignorance really bliss? In Russia an entire school was held hostage by terrorists. In Canada two weeks ago there was a school shooting. These happen all over the world, they are all deplorable incidents, but they are not an indictment of an entire nation.
2006-10-03 09:20:36 · answer #2 · answered by jerkyman45 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't happen as often in other countries. In other countries people that commit horrible acts of violence like that are shoot on site no BS court hearings and feel sorry for me my daddy spanked me crap. Anybody that shoots children in this country should be drug into the street and shoot publicly, harsh maybe but the best deterrent
2006-10-02 14:41:40 · answer #3 · answered by leterbuck 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really!!! I guess Canada , Scotland , Australia, germany, Israel , Japan , Bosnia , Netherlands , Beijing , argentina , Ireland , England , are not countries then !!! all those countries have had at least 1 and in most cases multiple school shootings in recent history.
2006-10-03 01:18:46 · answer #4 · answered by baalberith11704 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oooo! Another jealous foreigner! The only thing wrong with Americans is we let too many of your kind into our great country. I guess you're trying to tell us you don't have any mental cases in your country. What a joke!
2006-10-02 14:48:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Read the Bill Dedman on MSNBC today. Very educational treatment of a very heartbreaking subject.
2006-10-03 04:35:19 · answer #6 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually yes it does happen many places,
But for the US, we can start by the taking of God our of the schools. And the cheapening of human life by mercy killings and abortion. The cheapening of life by various horror video games
Both parents working, and so much more that has changed our society
2006-10-02 14:45:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not all americans. the ones doing bad are the ones that stand out in the crowd. there are a lot of us that are being good citizens. every country has crimes. please dont generalize, just because some us are behaving badly does not mean that there are no good people in america. not everyone in a group is the same, please learn to know the differences. blessed be.
2006-10-02 14:40:02 · answer #8 · answered by Ravenfire 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone is bashing Americans today. I'm an American. I do right ~ I don't kill ~ I'm not for war or destructiveness. America is full of many different people with many different opinions.
2006-10-02 14:33:00 · answer #9 · answered by ♥michele♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They just had a shooting in Canada dumbass. Also, the U.S. has a population of 300 million so of course the number of shootings and other acts of violence occur in the U.S. than most other countries.
2006-10-02 14:38:09 · answer #10 · answered by marcelluswallace 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋