Mass shooting in the center of Prague: 15 deaths confirmed
Mass shooting in the center of Prague: 15 deaths confirmed
A student killed his father before gunning down at least 15 others at a Prague university, Czech authorities said, adding the gunman had also been “eliminated”.
It is one of the only nations in the world - and the only one in Europe - that provides the constitutional right to bear arms.
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Switzerland does well with guns.
I bet those dead university students enjoyed all that constitutional freedom.
I would like to hear about the killers psychology and motivation (don't care about the fuckers name) and what is being done to prevent such motivation from manifesting again.
We don't often talk about this in the limelight, but it's important. We need to understand how they got here if we want to have any hope of reducing the odds of that happening again.
That takes time to find out, give it a few days.
From the article:
Czech media reported that Kozak authored social media posts in which he indulged in fantasies of suicide and mass murders in the days before the attacks.
I don't want to ruin internet privacy, but who has ideas on how to handle this better? I feel like if someone's posting "I wanna do a mass shooting" something should happen. I don't want the state or private enterprise to be able to abuse that, though.
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I have long thought that the police as an institution in the US is, shall we say, not good.
One time I was walking home from the grocery and I saw a couple having a screaming fight on the street. The guy had taken the woman's phone from her and was holding it up out of her reach. I thought to myself, "Someone should probably do something.. but who? And what?"
If I had called the police, it's incredibly unlikely it would have gone well. The people fighting weren't white, for one thing. The cops would probably roll up, throw their authority around, and get violent. Possibly murder the guy. Not what you want. Even if they didn't do violence immediately, subjecting that guy to the criminal justice system is not what you want, either.
In my imagination there should be a department of deescalation specialists. No guns. No arrest powers. Maybe some snacks.
But yeah, policing in the US is a tragedy at pretty much every level.
Back on topic, responsibility could maybe fall onto the platform. There are suicide prevention services. Maybe there could be mass shooting prevention services.
Some of the earliest modern police forces in the US were slave patrols in the south. In the north, Boston was the first city to have a modern professional force. It grew out of a system where private companies were hiring their own security to protect their cargo in the Boston port, and offloaded that cost onto the public.
Professional, publicly funded policing in the US has long been there to protect the interests of the powerful.
I mean in the US, threatening to murder someone is a crime. I'm sure it is there too.
If this was sort of generalized, we sell bumper stickers like that. There's a post on active with one.
probably, this is a price for freedom
You can't have absolute freedom in a civilized society. That idea is also self-contradictory when your freedom causes others to lose theirs.
"Foree-dumb"
Coward...
America continues to be global leader in exporting culture
Lots of talk about them allowing guns, as if that's what caused this, but let's look at the big picture..
The timeline for the shootings seems like it's that economic fuckery and downturns precede upticks in shootings. It is very alarming that there has been three of them this year.
Four. The "Serbia" entry is two shootings.
My condolences to the families.
Hope they'll figure out how to never make it happen again.
And yes, for God's sake, ban firearms.
Doc ock?