Austrian School Attack

[securespark]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/one-person-killed-attack-austrian-school-media-report-2025-06-10/

 

[securespark]

Up to 10 students dead in shooting. Gunman dead.

Thought to be the worst mass shooting in Austrian history.

 

[blup]

Around 1 in 3 Austrian's have firearms, something like 1 in 20 in the uk. I know a lot more than 20 people and none of them have weapons.

 

[transam]

I know several people with fire arms

One is a bit of a collector

World War One and before army rifles

Also has an army snipers rifle with all the attachments

All in working order

 

[IT Minion]

Around 1 in 3 Austrian's have firearms, something like 1 in 20 in the uk. I know a lot more than 20 people and none of them have weapons.

That's not right. Only 500,000 firearms certificates including shotgun licenses. That's less than 1%.

Statistics on firearm and shotgun certificates, England and Wales: April 2022 to March 2023

www.gov.uk

 

[diy_fun_uk]

I hope we never go down the route of opening up the legal routes to gun ownership, although if Reform get in anything's possible I suppose.

I see the gunman has taken the easy way out.

 

[IT Minion]

I hope we never go down the route of opening up the legal routes to gun ownership, although if Reform get in anything's possible I suppose.

I see the gunman has taken the easy way out.

The controls we have are broadly effective. We have very little firearms related crime/violence while allowing them for sporting/practical purposes.

There's room for improvement around mental health and firearms. The police don't seize firearms quickly enough and some owners are afraid the police will seize their firearms so may resist getting help more. It's not an easy topic.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

The controls we have are broadly effective. We have very little firearms related crime/violence while allowing them for sporting/practical purposes.

There's room for improvement around mental health and firearms. The police don't seize firearms quickly enough and some owners are afraid the police will seize their firearms so may resist getting help more. It's not an easy topic.

tbh I meant in terms of encouraging uptake and broadening criteria for ownership.

 

[securespark]

Apparently the guy with the gun was a student and one of the dead was an adult, the rest students.

 

[blup]

Around 1 in 3 Austrian's have firearms, something like 1 in 20 in the uk. I know a lot more than 20 people and none of them have weapons.

I was going by this

Estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[blup]

I know several people with fire arms

One is a bit of a collector

World War One and before army rifles

Also has an army snipers rifle with all the attachments

All in working order

I knew a few guys whose dads had kept their ww2 revolvers (or claimed they did)

 

[securespark]

Gunman is 21 yo former pupil.

Toll rises to 11 as another victim dies in hospital.

 

[Brigadier]

3 days of national mourning.

Over the pond, the gun nuts would be having three days of tooling up, to protect themselves against the other gun nuts.....

 

[motorbiking]

It's actually insane the "equipment" people have for "hunting" and it's not just America. I have colleagues in Eastern Europe who go hunting with compound bows.

 

[ic1927]

It's actually insane the "equipment" people have for "hunting" and it's not just America. I have colleagues in Eastern Europe who go hunting with compound bows.

Yes they banned hunting with bows in this country years ago, I have a few bows for target shooting and the one recurve bow is lethal having a draw weight of around 60 lbs.