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Making guns illegal is the first step, Witt.
Crouwel
(Oct 2 06, 14:36)
------------------------------I really don't know, Crouwel. the principle is good and I would vote for it, but that doesn't mean that stuff like this wouldn't happen.
Of course, if you can buy a gun in a supermarket it's probable that some kids go out in the woods and by the big-number law of statistics something wrong will happen. But those are numbers. If you really want to create havoc, as these school-shooters do, you don't need guns. You can just poison the water lines or something. School-shooting episodes are not about guns imo. There are other reasons or the lack of reason at all.
Otherwise, you're right on general. In Portugal, like any other country in Europe, most of the homicide rate can be reported to legal hunting weapon owners. The gun is there, something goes wrong and it happens. But those are common homicide crimes. School-shooting is not a normal homicide.