Spiegel: Norway right-wing terrorist "had a gun permit for a Glock pistol and an automatic rifle"

[guruoo]

'The suspect in the twin attacks in Norway has been identified as Anders Behring B., a 32-year-old Christian fundamentalist with anti-Islamic views. A police officer who described B. as "cold as ice" said the suspect had no known links to Norway's neo-Nazi scene.
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Police have identified the man who killed at least 91 people in twin attacks in Norway on Friday as Anders Behring B., a 32-year-old Christian with conservative and nationalistic views. B., who had a gun permit for a Glock pistol and an automatic rifle, apparently lived with his mother in a nondescript four-story brick building in the west of Oslo.

A special police unit raided B.'s apartment around 11 p.m. on Friday. According to investigations by Norwegian media, B. was a right-wing extremist who had repeatedly made anti-Islamic statements on Internet forums. Six days before the attacks, he sent his first and only message from his Twitter account. It read: "One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests" -- a quote from the British philosopher John Stuart Mill.'

B.'s Facebook page, which was taken offline late on Friday evening, featured a photograph of the suspect, who has wavy blond hair, a square jaw and blue eyes, looking off into the distance. B. apparently played the computer game "World of Warcraft" and was a member of a shooting club in Oslo. A childhood friend of the suspect told the Norwegian tabloid VG that B. had begun to talk about right-wing extremist ideas when he was in his late 20s. B. also maintained a racist profile on Facebook, the friend said. B. had served in the Norwegian army but had no other known connections to the military. He had also not come to the attention of the police, apart from a minor traffic offense 10 years ago, VG reported.'

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,776091,00.html

[Skittles]

1. gun nuts are not exclusively American

yup

[elocs]

3. Why do you hate the Second Amendment?

:shrug:

Watch out for the Gungeon because they don't like that kind of talk.

[Skittles]

11. oh FUCK the Gun Nut Forum

bunch of sick fucks

[TheWraith]

2. Well, so much for extremely strict gun control making crime impossible. nt

[guruoo]

4. They slip through there, they slip through here. nt

[Shagbark Hickory]

5. Impossible, no but shootings are not an everyday occurance in norway like they are in the usa.

[TheWraith]

6. For reasons which have little to do with their firearms laws.

And everything to do with criminal justice, poverty, black marketeering, and the drug trade. Upwards of 90% of shootings in the US originate from organized criminal activity, most of that being gang wars over controlling the drug trade. Said trade exploits people living in poverty, mostly black and brown young men, as expendable soldiers.

When the United Kingdom banned firearms, their murder rate... stayed exactly the same. Not a tick. Criminals simply either got illegal firearms, or they used different weapons. Now compare to Switzerland, where there are approximately 660,000 fully automatic rifles just lying around in people's homes, on top of the regular civilian sporting and self defense weapons... but Switzerland ranks in the top 10 countries in the world for the Human Development Index, and when was the last time you heard about a gang war there? Someone who's life is worth something to them isn't so willing to throw it away.

[rfranklin]

7. USA has more than three times the firearms deaths per 100,000 more than Norway...

http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNSTAT.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Of note on that table... Mexico is under the US

and we have had 30K people die from the current war on drugs. So what is the number here? Oy

[hack89]

10. Fortunately our rates have been steadily declining for decades

and are now at historic levels. Don't know exactly what the cause is but you should feel somewhat better knowing you have never been safer and your kids will be even more safer as time goes on.

[renegade000]

9. is that Machiavelli?

Forget the violent video games and tv shows, that historical literature is dangerous stuff man...

:sarcasm: