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© Thomson Reuters 2022.Gunman opens fire at Oslo gay bar, killing two on Pride parade day
By Terje Solsvik and Gwladys Fouche OSLO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Desert Tortoise
And you know this how?
Would you care to show us examples from the "leftist" press to back this claim? It is complete tripe. For this American at least the attack isn't a cause for tolerance but one of great sadness and dismay where you ask "Norway too? Is there any place safe from this kind of hate inspired violence?". There are too many guns and too many people happy to settle their difference with them. When does it stop?
Haaa Nemui
He’s been granted name suppression for the meantime, and will probably be revealed late trial or at the end of the trial.
Is it really important to you though?
Yrral
Lots of these people have their own sexual demon ,they are dealing with ,some of denying them ,and become enrage as a way of be dealing with them
starpunk
OK so the suspect was of Iranian origin. However there is xenophobia in Norway as well. That country has an Odinist neo-Nazi problem too - they've been burning ancient churches, killing Middle Eastern refugees and they sure don't like gays either.
Strangerland
I wouldn't say it's outrage for the USA, it's outrage that there are people too stupid to want to fix the problem that causes their children to be shot while in school, or people praying in a church, with surprising regularity. If the same could be said about Norway, you would hear people condemning Norway a lot more too. But right now you're comparing apples and oranges.
Compare American with a European country in regards to Covid, they'll tell you America is different so you can't compare. But then those same people try compare America with a European country in regards to guns, as if intelligent people would nod their heads and agree.
master
Oh...
venze
Norway has a small population, a normally quiet and peaceful country.
This latest shooting at a nightclub reminds one of the worst massacre that took away 77 lives some years ago.
However, the culprit has a reasonable decent life in prison compared to the poor in many countries..
TokyoLiving
The intolerance and hatred of the medieval ignorant bigots is increasing in the world. Influenced by the hate speech and authoritarianism of the criminal extreme right in the west..
Mr Kipling
Norway is now reporting this as an Islamist attack.
painkiller
Jeans and T-shirtJune 26 11:08 am JST
It's because of the rarity of a shooting in Norway is why you would be incredulous; that's the definition.
You disproved your point trying to pivot the issue from a rare mass shooting in Norway, to a not unusual shooting in a poor neighborhood in Chicago.
This is why the right basically ignore the left's outcry when there is a shooting in the US, because it is a false outrage.
albaleo
BigYen, to be fair, when Master posted his question, it wasn't reported here that the suspect was a Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin. (At least I don't think it was. I only found that out later on a different news site.) Although goodness knows why he wanted to know the name of the suspect. But I guess some can fulfill their prejudices based on names alone.
painkiller
Desert TortoiseToday 05:53 am JST
Not many seem to care about this kind of crime when it takes place outside the US.
Simply by looking at the number of responses here, compared to when the same type of shooting occurs in the US and a story appears here.
Not too difficult to count.
But because it took place in Norway, by an underrepresented class of citizen, there is ample leftist tolerance
Right smack dab here, where you are posting.
Where is the outrage, compared to when a similar incident occurs in the US?
painkiller
Jeans and T-shirtToday 10:45 am JST
Then you'd agree that the Norway story was already posted this morning, when the Chicago story was posted, and still, none of the usual leftist anti-gun outrage, so my point stands even more firmly.
You read it wrong.
So, it is obvious that people here, especially non-US citizens, are not serious about their opposition to gun violence, and they just try to use incidents that occur in the US as opportunities to try and find a weakness in US society.
At the same time, they are begging for the US to take a leadership role in NATO against Russia.
Funny how that works.
painkiller
Jeans and T-shirtToday 10:34 am JST
No, because the Norway story was posted a day before.
In fact, because these types of incidents are so rare in a country like Norway, I would think people would be more outraged to see this type of violence leaking into that kind of society.
It is not surprising at all that there would be a shooting in the South Side of Chicago.
The majority of shootings in the US are usually confined to that type of demographic.
Norway, on the other hand, should have the opportunity to put an end to gun violence, and an incident like this should wake up the entire country---and maybe it does; but people here won't see this as an opportunity to attack the entire society.
painkiller
A suspect, a 42-year-old Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin, was detained minutes after, according to police who said they believed he acted alone. Two weapons, including a fully automatic gun, were retrieved from the crime scene, they added.
As master said, an act of intolerance and hate, settled by a firearm.
Not many seem to care about this kind of crime when it takes place outside the US.
If this were to happen the States, non-US citizens would seize upon it as another act showing out of control gun culture in America!
But because it took place in Norway, by an underrepresented class of citizen, there is ample leftist tolerance.
master
any word on the name of the suspect?
and any follow-up on the NZ stabbings from 3 days ago? What is the name of the suspect there?
Why the long wait for info?