UPDATE2: This type of mass murder doesn't happen in other "advanced countries". *At least not at this magnitude*. Is this a true statement?

IMHO I would say no it is not a true statement. It does happen in other countries.

Parlez vous Hebdo, two gunmen entered the office of a satirical magazine in France with an assortment of guns and murdered 11 people (and injured 11 more). After leaving, they killed a police officer. And in a marketplace catering to Jews another five were murdered and 11 wounded.

In 2011, a deranged Anders Behring Breivik killed eight people by setting off a van bomb in Oslo Norway, before going on to murder 69 more people, mostly children, at a summer camp. This is the single worst shooting spree incident in history.

It takes only a rudimentary search to find out that mentally unstable killers can be found anywhere. In February of this year, nine people were killed in Czech Republic killing spree. In Erfurt, Germany, a couple of years ago, an expelled student murdered 13 teachers, 2 students and a policeman. That same year, in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča, a gunman shot and killed 14 people—many of them his own relatives— and a Russia gunman opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle killing six people. A couple of years before that, in England, a lone gunman killed 12 people and injured 11. In 2013 a mentally unstable man in Rio de Janeiro killed 12 children and seriously wounded another 12.

Evil is everywhere and evil is the root of the problem. Until the hearts and minds are changed in these evil people the carnage will continue.

The POTUS Has is blinders on and chooses the reality that he acknowledges. Kind of convenient when you want to push your own agenda...

Ummmmm Nazi Germany when they banned guns... communist Russia....middle east

I agree, murder, mayhem and slaughter happen routinely in countries throughout the ME and Africa. Kidnappings, which often end in murder, are rampant in many Latin American countries. China executes between 4,000 and 5,000 people a year. There are plenty examples of a Chinese snapping and killing other people. It's time for the President and the left to stop harping on gun control and come to grips with the lousy mental health system in the U.S. Tens of thousands of deranged people roam the streets in American with no way to do anything about the mass murders they commit until after they do them. The left created this problem when the threw open the doors to the asylums, but they want to blame the right and the 2nd amendment for all the blood spilled.

An attempted mass murder in another church was prevented by a woman with a gun. "Matthew Murray, carrying two handguns, a rifle and 1,000 rounds of ammunition killed two teenaged girls in a church parking lot in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and then entered the church where he began shooting. "The potential for disaster was incredible. There were 7,000 people on the church grounds at the time." Jeanne Assam, a former Minneapolis police officer and volunteer church security guard with a license to carry a gun stepped forward, identified herself and then "engaged him and took him down."

You can read the entire article here:http://ewross.com/the_lesson_we_should_learn_from_the_norway_shootings.htm

The guy hated black people and committed an act of terror against that demographic... this sort of violence happens all around the world. It's just more common here than most places in the Western world.

We should also remember that it used to be far more common than it is today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6siu-WLOPKI&feature=player_embedded

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So here is the real problem. Our country is consumed with Catlin or Bruce or whatever the hell it is this week. It is on the cover of every other magazine. We here on RP have posted hundreds of times about this. Yet we as a country we choose to ignore that there are seriously mentally ill people that are not being taken care of. When that is on every magazine and newspaper cover then this will be addressed.

No that is not true. He knows it is not a true statement but he has never been about the truth.

It is tragic and sad, but it is just as tragic and sad that people are using this to further their agenda.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html
I did some research and this is just one of the sites I located. Funny that most of the countries that outright ban weapons (IE guns/rifles) seem to not do so well against someone with a weapon. Laws only apply to those who follow them.

I man in China killed a bunch of children with a Knife a couple of years ago. There was also a man in Norway that shot and killed a large number of people. The UK is plagued by what they call "Knife Crime"

Probably the worst attack other than the Oklahoma Bombing was done by a man who put explosives in a school and blew it it up. This took place 1927.

Idiots and crazy people will find a way to do hard to other with or without a firearm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Bath_School_disaster