Do these shooting like VA Tech and Columbine happen in other countries?

I don't mean this from a gun control angle necessarily, more from a cultural one.

despite the fact that it is the last week of first round of the presidential campaign.

during a strike.

The US did a lot of military interventions for those guys.

I don't know if it's a comfort or not to see these happen elsewhere like Port Arthur.

something like "economic warfare" where I think the cases of a single person or two shooting up a school is something different.

Not like that's a good lead to have, but it does indeed happen in other countries. Heck, look at the middle east.

I can think of two incidents in Montreal in the last 15 years. One at Concordia (I believe) and the other at Dawson College last September.

Wikipedia has refreshed my recollection. In referring to the Dawson shooting (two deaths, one self-inflicted), it says

It is the fourth fatal school shooting in Montreal, after the École Polytechnique massacre in 1989, the Valery Fabrikant shooting spree at Concordia University in 1992, and the murder at an immigration school in 1997.

Wikipedia

Does yours get all hyper like this?

(I really hemmed and hawed about putting that comma in my subject line)

I've got Canadian relatives and regularly spend time up there but don't live in Canada, so I can't comment authoritatively about Canadian media except second hand. Although Canada's media are slowly going the way of American media (there's a laughable Fox equivalent up there), for the most part, Canadian TV is far more intelligent and informative and far less sensational. Americans who exist on a steady diet of our MSM might actually find that Canadian TV is boring. I find it refreshing, but as I said, I see ominous signs that it is beginning to head off in the wrong direction.

In Dunblane a man killed 16 kindergartners, in Australia a man shot up a pub and some offices, killing 35. Australia banned automatic and semi-automatic weapons over it.

hard to get, but people can buy semi and easily convert them with kits.

We, not so much. :shrug:

they still have a dickhead for a PM.

center, but didn't kill any (or even hit I think) any of the kids.

One of my children was about that age then. The details of that shooting still give me nightmares. No other mass shooting has struck me that hard, and I'm just down the road from Killeen.

For those who don't remember, here's a poorly written melodramatic account of it. Happened in 1996. http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/dunblane_massacre/index.html

kindergarten. Still gives me chills.

Wonder what's up with that.

Brazil: Genildo Ferreira de Franca (15) Pissed off at being called homosexual by his former father-in-law, Genildo Ferreira de Franca, a former soldier, went on a 22-hour murderous rampage killing 15 people in São Gonçalo do Amarante, a town on the outskirts of Natal, 1,800 miles northeast of São Paulo.

Egypt: Saber & Mahmoud Farahat Abu el-Ulla (13) On September 18, 1997, the two brothers attacked a bus outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo leaving nine German tourist and their Egyptian driver dead. Egyptian officials have insisted the attack was not linked to Islamic militants.

France: Eric Borel (13) A bored French teenager, Eric woke up a Sunday morning with death on his mind. On September 24, 1995 Borel killed his mother, stepfather and brother with a hammer and a baseball bat. Then he picked up his .22-caliber hunting rifle, walked six miles to the village of Cuers and opened fire in a parking lot outside a bank and in the town square. During his half-hour morning rampage, he killed seven more people and wounded nine others before putting a bullet through his head.

Pakistan: Mohammed Yaqub (10) A resident of the Kashmir state in Pakistan, Mohammed gunned down 10 people after flying into a rage when his nephew defied him by chopping down a tree. Mohammed shot and killed his nephew, Yaseem, with an automatic weapon, then opened fire on family members and bystanders. The suspect surrendered to police soon after the shootout near Muzaffarabad, 60 miles northeast of Islamabad.

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Just a few, with barely any Googling.

...despite it being held up in gun control debates as a counter example to US gun liberalism, there was s shooting at the Univeristy of Montreal where 14 women were killed by an engineering student.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=950DE4DC1230F934A35751C1A96F948260

then you greatly lower the probability of having one of these things happen. In the U.K. and most other countries if you want more than a hunting 20 gauge then you must join a police force or the military or obtain it through a very black market. period.

The only good gun is a government gun.

some asshole gunned down a class of women in montreal some years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_school_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanterre_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanaa_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramoana_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerford_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zug_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoddle_Street_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Street_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Bum-Kon


thats just a handfull

mass shootings. That is 200 too many, but Lou Dobbs said on The Early Show this morning that 1100 college kids will die binge drinking related deaths and another really large number will commit suicide.

in the US alone. I read that in a Dutch newspaper yesterday, although the article didn't mention a source for this figure.

We average 16,000 murders per year in this country. Do 1/5 of them really take place in schools?

Link

Link 2 (The events at these schools were part of the larger Rwandan genocide)

School shootings

Every shooting is a tragedy, but the breakdown is sobering

1 shooting each in Lebanon, Yemen, Australia, Russia, Japan, and the U.K.

2 each in Germany and Israel

4 in Canada

22 in the U.S. (16 of which have happened within the last 20 years)

So, yes.

countries together.

Sure, there are rampage shootings in other countries, but they happen more often in this country (See post 21 as an example).

In Belgium a few years back a gunman took out a bunch of tiny school children but in general, no, this happens ONLY here.
They seem to have their share of serial killers but this kind is rare.
Lee

But then easy access to guns is not universal.

All the guns are out of the hands of individuals and only the government has them. No mass killings at schools there. We should take heed.

To get a real idea you would need to look at the population, the number of mass school shootings and the number of years you are talking about.

Since I am at work at the moment I don't have time to check all the numbers.

Australia: 20 million (one fourteenth US pop.)
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/as.html

Britain: 60 million (one fifth)
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uk.html

and I can't think of any Latin American country except for Mexico that has had a case like these.