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.
My guess he’d just copying stuff he saw on TV. We copied many other things from US culture like Halloween and bad food, now time for mass shootings.
Came to the comments for the ‘blame USA’ and was not disappointed.
Own your own policy flaws. Own your own nutters.
I don’t blame USA. I blame European media that keep reporting shootings in USA. If Americans don’t have any interest in addressing this issue why even talk about it here? We can’t do anything about it and all it does is give stupid ideas to our nutters. It’s not like we can send aid or influence policies in USA. I guess it could be relevant to someone who wants to travel there but that’s what travel advisories are for. Let’s just pretend they are not happening, like Americans do.
From the article:
Police said the gunman was inspired by “a terrible event abroad”. In one post, he cited a 14-year-old Russian school shooter who killed one classmate and wounded five others as an inspiration.>
wow, that one in russia was just a few weeks ago. it’s crazy to me how that event could be inspiring enough to motivate someone in a different country. no target of vengeance or grandiose idealism necessary.
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.
In my imagination there should be a department of deescalation specialists. No guns. No arrest powers. Maybe some snacks.
As a teacher, I had to do home visits for every student in my homeroom. Two families threatened to kill me. One by siccing their dogs on me, the other by just shooting me. The entire purpose of my visit was just to meet them and let them know I care about their kids
What do you do when these de-escalation specialists go to talk to a person who is crazy-posting, and have their lives threatened?
I don’t ask this facetiously. I think this is a good idea. But these workers will run into situations like this, and more to the point, opponents of these programs will definitely bring this sort of thing up when trying to sway public opinion.
I legit don’t have an answer.
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.
The solution is to remove access to firearms capable of rapid rates of fire from the general public.
That would help with mass shootings, very likely, yes. I feel like there’s also things we (or various platforms) could do to address the parent category of mass murder
Yes. The solution is not to curb netneutrality and online discourse though. But to have a better social net and family support that can catch individuals like these or prevent them completely.
And Czehia has or had these. Which is why the rate of mass shootings, with a country that actually allows people to own guns, is much lower than in the country where that has virtually no support and more lax gun laws.
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
Love the innovation! It’s not easy making everything about America, but by god people always find a way!
tbh america and domestic mass shootings are pretty much synonymous at this point. this time (this one rare time) an immediate association with the us seems appropriate.
It was inspired by a Russian mass shooting according to the actual article… let’s stop being ignorant
which in no way nullifies the overwhelming figures seen in the us.
This is one of the scariest pictures I’ve seen in my life
A blurry picture of a man with a gun? Ooh spoOOOOooky.
The blurrier the scarier
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.
Lots of talk about them allowing guns, as if that’s what caused this, but let’s look at the big picture…
Countries that allow guns have massively more gun deaths, that shouldn’t be surprising
Edit: it’s worth noting that the US has had more mass shootings this year than the entire history of Europe apparently, according to that list.
According to that list? Mass shootings in Europe are extremely rare.
I’m not arguing that fact, my point is just that more guns will always result in more mass shootings. Guns should not be a right.
guns will always result in more mass shootings
Then why aren’t there any other mass shootings in the Czech Republic?
Considering that mass shootings aren’t a common thing in the Western world as a whole, that isn’t really relevant. One is more than most countries in the West have had in decades.
There were 2 others in the last decade or so
Absolutely. I just think that it’s silly to draw attention to guns being easily attainable in this context, when there have been so many more mass shootings in other European countries.
Guns don’t kill people
You are correct. People kill people. With guns
So guns aren’t the problem.
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.
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- It’s legal for the public to own guns in Czech Republic
- If you’re going to try to start a anti gun control circlejerk - try not to do it under an article about a mass shooting, dipshit.
That this is an outlier for the Czech Republic does rather point to the fact that the American domestic terrorists are primarily a cultural problem.
And we do love exporting our culture.
There’s one every few years in almost every country.
The difference is it’s not a mass shooting per week… This doesn’t help your argument as much as you think it does.
Edit: also the joke is most developed countries are allowed to own guns to some extent, a total ban is only what your side tells you to keep your support.
You mean per day.
Let’s use SI units. Per second.
Well that’s why it’s actually news worthy… in the US it would just be another normal day.
Damn dude, literally couldn’t google what the gun laws in Czech Republic are.
Czechia has quite permissive gun laws iirc
You could say liberal gun laws but that would have confused them so I thank you for your word choice
I actually wrote “good” first, but then I realized that left way too much to interpretation, and quickly changed it to “permissive”, “liberal” never entered my train of thought.
Probably not for long.
Here’s your spoonfed quote literally pulled from the article to go with your dipshit comment.
Czech Republic has some of the most liberal gun laws in Europe. There are more than 800,000 firearms of all categories registered among 300,000 gun permit holders in the country, which has a population of about 10.5 million people, writes Ella Nunn.
It is one of the only nations in the world - and the only one in Europe - that provides the constitutional right to bear arms.
Concealed-carry permits for self-defence can be obtained by Czech citizens without presenting specific reasons and recreational shooting is one of the most popular sports in the country.
I’m sure if you had the patience, literacy, and weren’t currently struggling with your mental capacity to make it this far down my comment to read this much, you’d probably feel a bit like an asshole to try to make this nightmarish story into your opportunity to talk about needing more guns on the street. Alas, I’m currently speaking into the void cuz your head is likely still buried just far enough up your own ass for you to enjoy the smell of your own farts while searching for your next astounding comment. The people you hear crying aren’t the ones you triggered with your unhinged comment, it’s the sound of everyone who cares about you. We’re all really concerned about you and are worried you’d suffocate were it not for how much you laugh at your own heartless comments.
Why did you think that?
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting we’ve had 23 mass shootings in the US in December alone.
Another uneducated American haha.