'Nuther school shooting...

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'Nuther school shooting...

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...thankfully, NOT HERE in the U.S. From a blog I subscribe to:

A teenage boy opened fire at a school in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Wednesday, killing eight students and a school security guard, according to police. Another six children and a teacher were wounded and are receiving hospital care... Authorities say they received a call about the shooting at Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School around 8:40 a.m. local time. Police arrested the suspect, a seventh-grade student born in 2009, saying he used his father's gun to shoot at students and staff at the school. In an update, police said the suspect, identified only by his initials, K.K., called them from the school minutes after the violence was reported. They also said he apparently planned his actions well in advance, and had written a list of children he wanted to kill. Because the suspect is 13, he is too young to be held criminally responsible, the prosecutor's office in Belgrade said, according to public broadcaster RTS. Citing his status as a minor, the news outlet added, prosecutors ordered the student's father to be detained on suspicion of crimes against general security... The first call to police from the school came from its deputy principal, reporting the violence – but Milić said a second call came from the suspect himself, who told police he had just shot several people. By then, the suspect had gone to the schoolyard to wait for officers to arrive... When police visited the suspect's home, they found a safe that his father said was used to hold the firearms. But his son apparently knew the combination; the pair had also reportedly gone to the shooting range together. Under Serbia's gun laws, citizens and permanent residents must meet several requirements in order to own a gun. In addition to registering their weapon, they must undergo training in handling firearms and obtain a certificate of their medical fitness. They must also store guns securely, and give valid reasons to justify owning them. (It's unclear whether the presumably, openly armed guard was the first target – a concern that John Lott and others have expressed about limiting school security to uniformed officers in the US. According to Wikipedia, Serbia has a “strong gun culture,” with the third highest per capita rate of gun ownership in the world, At the age of 18, Serbians without criminal histories or mental-health issues [including substance abuse] may be licensed to own handguns, rifles and shotguns, with limited issuance of concealed-carry permits.)

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/11736197 ... l-shooting


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