A spate of school killings in Western Europe has raised pressure on authorities to tackle a problem long seen as a largely U.S. phenomenon, increasing momentum for tougher gun and security laws and more policing of social media.
While mass shootings remain far more common in the United States, four of the worst school shootings in Western Europe this century have occurred since 2023 and two - a massacre of 11 people in Austria and another in Sweden - were this year.
This week’s killings in the Austrian city of Graz sparked calls for tighter gun laws by political leaders, mirroring the response of the Swedish government after the 11 deaths at the Campus Risbergska school in Orebro in February.
It it were only that. Your country has launched a frontal assault on democracy in Europe trying to prop up fascists everywhere. Imagine how you’d fell if Von der Leyen went to rallies, campaigned and economically supported every MAGA candidate in your country. That is currently happening in Europe.
Oh please, don’t give me that crap. EU countries have been dabbling in fascism at least as much as America. Viktor Orbán, Karol Nawrocki, the rise of the AfD party in Germany, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party in France. These folks didn’t come into power because of American voters, y’all voted for them. These folks aren’t American they’re your own homegrown fascists. The polls are from your own people not Americans. So don’t scapegoat us because you can’t accept the EU has a hard-on for fascism ATM.