Crimea School Shooting Proves, Once Again, That It’s Not Just The U.S.

By Tom Knighton

Anti-gunners claim that school shootings are a uniquely American problem. They’re not implying it, either. They’ve used that precise phrasing more than once as they start down their road to arguing for tighter gun control. After all, they argue, the rest of the world has strict gun control and a lack of mass shootings, so if we got tighter firearm regulations, we wouldn’t have mass shootings either.

Unfortunately for them, though, the entire premise falls flat on its face because contrary to their most fervent wishes, it’s not just an American problem.

Russian officials said an 18-year-old student attacked his vocational school Wednesday in Crimea, going on a rampage that killed 17 students and left more than 40 people wounded before killing himself. One student said the shooting went on for at least 15 minutes.

Russia’s Investigative Committee, the nation’s top investigative agency, said the attacker was caught on security cameras entering Kerch Polytechnic College in the Black Sea city of Kerch and firing at students. It identified him as [name redacted].

Sergei Aksyonov, the regional leader in Crimea, said the fourth-year student at the school had acted alone and killed himself in the school’s library after the attack.

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Source:: Bearing Arms