So we can be more like those civilized and unarmed Europeans. From April 10, 2009 BBC:
From April 11, 2009 BBC:A Greek student has died after shooting a fellow student and two passers-by at his college in Athens before turning the gun on himself.
Police said the gunman's motive was revenge, saying he had left a note indicating he was tired of being mocked by fellow pupils.
The wounded student is in a serious condition in hospital. The other two victims have minor injuries.
The shooting happened at a vocational college in a poor district of Athens.
And that's just the last two days.A Dutch man has opened fire at a crowded cafe in Rotterdam, killing one person and injuring three others.
Dutch police said bystanders wrestled the gunman to the ground and held him until officers arrived.
A police spokesman said the man was a 46-year-old Rotterdam resident, but gave no further details.
He said the motive for the early morning shooting was unclear, but may have begun with a quarrel in the cafe, where a talent contest was under way.
The shooting took place at 0100 local time (2300 GMT), according to Dutch police.
One person was wounded inside the cafe and three people were hit on the street, one fatally.
I'm curious to know how much coverage the recent mass murders in the U.S. received in the Dutch and Greek media. I know that European news media like to pretend a lot of moral superiority to the U.S., so I would expect that they probably covered these very atypical tragedies in great deal. (When I say, "atypical": I mean that all the mass murders that will take place this year in the U.S. will have great trouble reaching 1% of all murders.)
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