Metal detectors mean almost nothing, they are merely a feel-good measure in most cases short of airport security. There are MANY ways to get around them.
ZakHH From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 931 times:
Quoting Queso (Reply 1): How can something like this happen with the strict gun laws European countries have? I guess he chose not to observe those laws.
What is your point? Laws do not make sense, because they can be broken?
Gun laws have no effect, which is proven by 1 single incident?
But I agree with your 2nd statement:
Quoting Queso (Reply 1): Metal detectors mean almost nothing, they are merely a feel-good measure in most cases short of airport security. There are MANY ways to get around them.
Plus, Italy has a certain reputation on a rather lax discipline with security controls. No generalization intended, but in Italian football, there have been several incidents with items thrown or used inside the stadium that must never have gotten there. I remember one incident with a burning motor scooter being thrown towards the field of Milan's San Siro stadium.
Anyway, that said, the shooting in question here could basically happen anywhere, and no gun law in the whole wide world will be able to make sure that such things would never happen.
However, gun laws can help to reduce the frequency of such incidents, and unless my impression is wrong, that works quite alright here in good ol' Europe.
MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13343 posts, RR: 64 Reply 3, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 901 times:
Quoting Queso (Reply 1): How can something like this happen with the strict gun laws European countries have? I guess he chose not to observe those laws.
Italy has a long, practically unguardable, coastline. Opposite, on the other side of the Adriatic, lies Albania and the former Yugoslavian countries. There is much human trafficking by small boats across the Adriatic from Albania to Italy.
Some ten years ago, therewas a civil war in most of former Yugoslavia and also a revolution in Albania. During this time government armouries were looted.
The Albania Mafia, has, together with the Russian one, the reputation of being the most ruthless in Europe (in so far as they have used violent methods to push the established local organised crime out of many areas of business all over Europe).
One area of business the Albanian Mafia deal with is gun smuggling. E.g. in Germany it is easier and cheaper to get an illegal Albanian or former Yugoslavian AK-47 than to get a licence for a legal hunting rifle.
Then, at least in rural areas of northern Albania, many people rather still obey a traditional code of conduct, which includes blood revenge, than regular law.
Slider From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6518 posts, RR: 37 Reply 4, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 887 times:
Quoting Queso (Reply 1): How can something like this happen with the strict gun laws European countries have? I guess he chose not to observe those laws.
Gun laws are great huh? They take the hands out of law abiding people and then you have someone who chooses not to follow an administrative law. Ah, the folly of these ways. It's so apparent yet so many across the world choose to ignore the obvious.
MDorBust From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 868 times:
At last the deeply hidden secret ploy of treachery and intrique has been revealed. Queso is secretly and anti who has been posing as and RKBA advocate to learn our inner most secrets!!! Dun Dun DUHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Jpax From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 1016 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 841 times:
Quoting Queso (Reply 1): There are MANY ways to get around them.
Boondock Saints, anyone? Up and over the metal detector.
Slider From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6518 posts, RR: 37 Reply 8, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 826 times:
Quoting Queso (Reply 6):
I guess I should have included this with my post:
Oh I got your sarcasm....good stuff. Just added on for effect.
Queso From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 813 times:
Quoting MDorBust (Reply 7): Queso is secretly and anti who has been posing as and RKBA advocate to learn our inner most secrets!!! Dun Dun DUHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Shhhhhh! Don't tell all those redneck NRA nutjobs I've been hanging around with!
KSYR From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 804 times:
Interesting incident, thankfully the gunman was brought down before he could hurt anyone else. Does anyone know if Italy uses armed officers in their courtrooms? And if not, maybe this incident could change that policy...?
Gemuser From Australia, joined Nov 2003, 5219 posts, RR: 6 Reply 11, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 757 times:
Quoting KSYR (Reply 10): Does anyone know if Italy uses armed officers in their courtrooms? And if not, maybe this incident could change that policy...?
I don't know about Reggio Emilia, in northern Italy, but I have been in a court room in Palermo, Sicily and armed was the understatement of the century! The entry was a tank trap, with two tanks beyond it, everybody was armed with very large guns (no idea what type). There were 10 or 12 such armed men on the gate and just about every where inside the building.
Of course this was for Mafia trials in the 1990s, but certainly some Italian are "armed"!
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