Apparently the people of Austria don't have a lot of faith in "thoughts and prayers"

[dflprincess]

https://replica.startribune.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=9eacb446-7c71-4386-852d-84b429bef9e1

Austria moves to tighten gun ownership
Laws were quickly proposed after 10 killed in a school shooting.

The Austrian government on Wednesday proposed a bundle of new laws on private gun ownership, eight days after the deadliest school shooting in the country’s history.

The measures include raising the minimum age to own some firearms, including handguns, to 25 from 21, strengthening the mandatory psychological test that must be passed to buy a gun and instituting a fourweek waiting period between the purchase and the delivery of a first weapon.

The government also wants to make it easier for the results of psychological evaluations to be more easily shared among government agencies....

...“Nothing we do, including what we have decided today, will bring back the 10 people we lost last Tuesday,” Chancellor Christian Stocker of Austria said. “We are painfully aware of this. But I can promise you one thing: We will learn from this tragedy.”

...Lawmakers are expected to approve the new rules by a big majority , a sign of how deeply the attack shocked the country.

Austria has some of the laxest gun ownership laws in Europe. Under current rules, the shotgun the shooter used can be bought by anyone older than 18. The suspect was able to buy the handgun after passing a psychological test.

Meanwhile, the Star Tribune couldn't allow comments on an article about Gov Walz saying that maybe guns shouldn't be allowed to be carried at or in the capitol.

[mzmolly]

1. They should look at how well "thoughts and prayers" have worked

in the US.

[BOSSHOG]

2. My thoughts and prayers haven't worked

THEY are still destroying America.

[anciano]

3. "Thoughts and prayers" is just a pious "feel good about myself" response...

it is dismissive and avoids having to address the underlying issue.

[Skittles]

8. THANK YOU

prayers are absolutely useless and serve only to make the make sanctimonious folk feel better

[Dave Bowman]

9. Bless their hearts.

[Silent Type]

4. Increasing age, psychological review, and 4 week waiting period would be huge here. But

I no longer see much chance of significant restrictions on guns, public toting, and worse.

I’d melt em all if it were me.

[Cha]

5. Brilliant on Austria! The Gov Cares about their

Kids and People!

The Fascist Traitor wing here are Actively Killing Patriots.. and they couldn't care less about Kids in School Massacres.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Oh, look, a civilized country. Must be nice to have a government that values children's lives.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Were I in charge, I'd not only ban guns,

but I'd have all guns confiscated.

For those of you who don't agree, how many gun deaths each year are you okay with? Ten? A hundred? A thousand? Thirteen thousand? Are you just fine with your spouse or child being murdered by a gun? Yes? Hooray for you. But I'm not. I want as close to zero as is possible.

So, at the risk of repeating myself, I am not remotely okay with someone I love, or even know, being murdered with a gun. If you're fine with that, good for you. But I am not.

We need to get rid of the guns.

[Irish_Dem]

10. A country which cares about their children and people.

Unlike the US which loves to see American children slaughtered as they sit in school.

In the US gun violence is the leading cause of death for children.
Americans don't care at all.