I missed this story of terror in Oslo mass shooting being investigated as Islamic terrorism
What happens when an armed bad-guy shows up in a gun-free-zone intent on doing bad things? Bad things happen, because there is no one to stop them.
Terrified revellers at a gay bar in Oslo hid in a basement and desperately called loved ones as a gunman went on the rampage, killing two people and injuring 21 on the day the city was due to celebrate its annual Pride parade.
Authorities said the suspect, a 42-year-old Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin.
As is always the case, some are excusing the terrorist act as mental illness. But not everyone.
“Everything indicates that this has been an attack by an Islamist extremist,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told a news conference.
It should be noted that even in America, bars are gun-free-zones, unless the bar has hired armed security. Some have. Some can't afford to. The Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando comes to mind. Also an act of Islamic terror. But I'm sure it was the gun's fault, actually.
The hat tip goes to The Gates of Vienna - The Islamic Terror Attack in Oslo: Swedish and Flemish Perspectives.
The two pieces ..., both translated by Gary Fouse, discuss the incident from Flemish and Swedish perspectives, respectively.
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