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

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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.