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Mosque attacked in Norway

Ryokan

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Ryokan
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White Norwegian shooter, local to the area, with two shotguns and a pistol.

He only managed to wound one before he was stopped.

Very lucky. This could have gone really bad.

Norwegian media reports he was fascinated with the New Zealand attack.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49308016
 
Ryokan said:
Shooter was stopped by a 75 year old unarmed man.
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The news article you linked said the 75-year-old man was the only injured victim, and that many members of the congregation overwhelmed the shooter and stopped him.

That's definitely a good thing. Going by the description of the shooter's weapons this could've been a massacre. I tend to think that because it wasn't successful, it won't get much press.
 
Checkmite said:
The news article you linked said the 75-year-old man was the only injured victim, and that many members of the congregation overwhelmed the shooter and stopped him.

That's definitely a good thing. Going by the description of the shooter's weapons this could've been a massacre. I tend to think that because it wasn't successful, it won't get much press.
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Norwegian media reports that it was the injured 75-year-old who subdued the shooter.

Police also reports a dead person found in an apartment nearby that is connected to the shooting.
 
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The dead person found is a young woman connected to the shooter.

Girlfriend, perhaps?
 
Sounds like a "let's get 'em" moment.

Lat time that happened in Europe it was by American soldiers on leave.
 
The young woman killed had a family relation with the shooter.
 
casebro said:
Sounds like a "let's get 'em" moment.

Lat time that happened in Europe it was by American soldiers on leave.
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Actally the last time it happened in Norway was when 77 were killed in 2011 by a single gunman who also used a car bomb.

Or am I missing some subtle political commentary here?
 
Maybe we should make people citizens as rewards for heroic deeds, too, like the French do.

Provided the Good Guy Without a Gun already is a citizen, of course ;) .
 
The shooter apparently cited American mass shooters as inspiration.
Article in Norwegian, so you will probably have to use Google Translate.

ETA: he apparently killed his 17 year old little sister.

Samson said:
Innocent people are never to blame, but the religion of Islam brainwashes from the earliest age with complete falsehoods. Then there are sufficient numbers to use these against the perceived enemy. this is uncontroversial when simply observing recent attacks in America Europe and elsewhere. Far right extremists attack seldom and are immediately made accountable by their communities. Islamic terrorists are ignored by their communities for whatever reason.
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You realise this was an attack on Muslims, not by Muslims, right :confused: ?
 
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Samson said:
Far right extremists attack seldom
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The FBI just recognised the far-right as a terrorist threat due to the increasing number of "lone wolf" terrorist attacks from Trump sympathisers and others on the far right. You may have missed the recent mass shootings and the bombs sent to left-leaning politicians, for instance.
 
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Safe-Keeper said:
... he apparently killed his 17 year old little sister ...
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Somehow this snippet seems the most disturbing to me. Sure, it's all crazy, all of it, but killing strangers, even killing one's colleagues or friends or SO, all that somehow one sees as kind of par in a crazy demented world peopled by crazy demented people. But this killing one's kid sister, who does that? This stands out even against this backdrop of craziness.
 
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The girl killed was his step-sister.

The age of the man who stopped him has been corrected to 65. His nickname in the mosque was Grandfather.

The shooter shot through a glass door to get in when the man charged him and put his arms around him, holding on tightly until another older man who was outside could come hit him in the head.

He got a small injury in the eye during the struggle.

Now that's a hero.
 
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