Can anyone in Religion & Spirituality name the last major shooter incident in Europe?

Question

Something similar to Columbine, postal workers, Virginia Tech, Day Traders, Mall shooters, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum..........

Anyone?

Politically motivated terrorist incidents are a different matter. No Oklahoma City, 9/11, London or Madrid responses.

Shooters.

Name some.

dog sneeze penguin pride does the homework.

Nicely done.

"hungerford sussex england 1983" didn't turn up anything on Google.

Can you provide a link?

I don't doubt it, I'm just interested.

And Cathy also does the homework.

But your references do seem to be a little heavy on the German side of things.

Is that because of the site you used to search for the references, or because it's Germany?

They did cause a problem or II last century.

Cathy,

Interesting that the only non-German incident you listed was described as a 'gun enthusiast'.

Answer 1

WW II?

Answer 2

We should all know the figures reported are around 10,000 gun deaths in the USA vs 10-50 in almost any other industrialized country in the world.

To the ignorant ones claiming Europe has higher rates of STD, Suicide and alcohol abuse

Read the FACTS and WEEP

STD Rates (HIV) as an example
Western Europe 0.25
North America 0.56

Suicide Rates
UNITED KINGDOM 1999 Male 11.8 Female 3.3
UNITED STATES 1999 Male 17.6 Female 4.1

Alcohol Abuse Year 2000 figures
USA 15-29year olds (per 1000) 88
Europe 15-29 year olds (per 1000) 55

Also quoted from the Times Sep 2005, looking at several recent large studies:
"The study concluded that the US was the world’s only prosperous democracy where murder rates were still high, and that the least devout nations were the least dysfunctional. Mr Paul said that rates of gonorrhoea in adolescents in the US were up to 300 times higher than in less devout democratic countries. The US also suffered from “ uniquely high” adolescent and adult syphilis infection rates, and adolescent abortion rates, the study suggested. "


Oh and I AM NOT from Europe! I just like facts over fiction!

Answer 3

Scotland, March 1996: Gun enthusiast Thomas Hamilton shoots 16 children and their teacher dead at their primary school in Dunblane, Scotland before killing himself. (the first school shooting recorded)

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.

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.

Germany, April 2002: Seventeen people killed after a gunman - a former pupil - opens fire in a school in Erfurt, eastern Germany. He then turned the gun on himself.

(that would be 5 school shootings in 10 years the same number as the US. And this is just school shootings not work or other)

We could also talk about how parts of europe have the highest human trafficking rates of any developed region, the highest rate of growth of IV drug users and the Ukraine have the highest spread of AIDS of any western country.

Point being no one place contains all the good in the world and no one place the foul stench of misdeeds. it is spread pretty evenly, no ones hands are clean.

Edit:It said Germany because it was school shootings only and that is where the school shootings took place. Not anything I choose I just took all the school shootings listed in Europe. I am sure if I were to do research on other types of shootings it would be other places. These are the BBC's words not mine.

Nicevolve if you like facts why don;t you try reading what was actually said, I said highest rate of SPREAD, NOT highest rate infected. HIV is spreading in the Urkraine at a faster rate then anywhere else outside of Africa. And the highest rate of GROWTH of IV drug users.

Since I said nothing about Alcohol I will not respond to that. Plus I named a specific country not Europe as a whole so look it up by country.

BEFORE YOU TOUT THE FACTS, GET THE FACTS ON WHAT YOU ARE GETTING THE FACTS ON.

Answer 4

In Falun Sweden in 1994- 7 shot dead
Also in 1994 a mass shooting in Stockholm's Ostermaln district killing 5 people.

I can't speak to the rest of Europe.

Answer 5

Germany. Not sure of the date but a few years ago.

Its actually not the big splashy happenings that matter more the everyday murder rate in the USA using guns which is the scandal.

Answer 6

hungerford sussex england 1983
and faked z if you want low lifes go home and look in the mirror or check out the murder capital of the world or maybe even the highest rates of child morbesity /drug capitals the list of U.S low lifes is quite a long one i suggest that you look to home before judging others

Answer 7

I think the people in Europe are still trying to get over WWII and the whole Holocaust incident...you remember that?

Answer 8

The 2002 German school shooting leaving 18 dead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1952869.stm
Paris shooting of 2002 leaving 8 dead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1895751.stm
Dublane, Scottland shooting of 1996 leaving 16 dead.
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1990-1999/Story/0,,112749,00.html

Answer 9

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=105002026

Answer 10

No but what is your suicide rate, your STD rate, and your alcoholism rate?

FAR higher than in the the USA I assure you. europe is lowlifes