This crap doesn't happen in any other country but America. In Japan when someone goes crazy they just kill themselves or make a suicide pact with someone else, they don't kill innocents. In China when someone goes crazy... oh wait they can't - only the government can kill people. In Canada when people go crazy.. I don't know what the do - but they don't kill innocent random people even though they have tons of guns. England the same. Almost all of Europe.
Actually these public shooting and or killing rampages are hardly unique to the United States. More prevalent, probably yes, but not unique.
I recall a recent incident in Japan where some guy actually went on a knife/machete rampage and killed like eight people, wounding a dozen others. Canada has had incidents, as have Europe (France...Germany...UK).
I spent hours researching this in 2002 or so and posted my findings in a discussion but I tried to locate it in the archives and its nowhere to be found. Not going to do it all over again, but the info is out there for those who have a few hours to kill. The list was pretty extensive.
In Israel, allowing members of the public to train for and carry guns proved to be very effective, with several would-be Palestinian terrorists shot before they could do anything more than wound or kill a couple people.
Of course, the Palestinians simply resorted to bombs instead of guns. Easy enough to make, conceal, and deliver. Ban guns, and we will be asking "how to prevent school bombings?" Where there is a will...
Edit: I found one post but its not the more extensive list that I previously documented:
(This is not a comprehensive list of all public rampages in other countries, only the most infamous or deadly cases):
U.K.:
August 19, 1987, 27-year-old Michael Ryan shot to death 16 people and wounded 14 others in the small farming community of Hungerford, approximately 60 miles west of London.
March 13, 1996, Thomas Hamilton walked to the Dunblane Primary School in Scotland and killed 16 children, their teacher, and then shot himself.
Australia:
April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant, a 28-year-old with a history of mental problems went on a rampage beginning in the historical town of Port Arthur in the southeastern corner of Tasmania, killing 35 people.
17 August 1991, taxi driver Wade Frankum shot 8 people to death in a suburban shopping mall in Strathfield, Australia before turning the gun on himself.
August 7th, 1987, Julian Knight killed 7 and wounded 19 in Melbourne.
December 8th, 1987, Frank Vitkovic burst into a high-rise federal office building and fatally shot eight persons with a rifle before throwing himself through an 11th story window to his death. Five other persons were wounded in the shootings.
27 October 1992, Malcom Baker went on a shooting spree through three coastal towns near Sydney, Australia, killing his former girlfriend, her pregnant sister and four others before surrendering to authorities.
Canada:
April 6th, 1999, Pierre Leburn walked into his former place of employment on Ottawa, Canada and kills four former coworkers then kills himself.
In December of 1989, Marc Lepine went on a shooting rampage at the University of Montreal, targeting women as his victims, killing 14 and wounding 12, before killing himself.
5th April 1996, British Columbia, Mark Chahal burst into the home of his estranged wife's family and opened fire as they were preparing for a wedding, killing 9, before turning the gun on himself.
September 1970, Creston, British Columbia, Dale Nelson went on a killing spree leaving eight dead.
France:
On March 27, 2002, Richard Durn calmly opened fire at a city council meeting in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, methodically killing eight people and injuring more than 20 others in an attack the prime minister called a "a case of furious dementia."
July 1989, Luxiol, France: Christian Dornier drives around firing a shotgun at residents of a farming village 275 miles south-east of Paris, killing 14 people and wounding 9.
June 1985, Brittany, France: Guy Martell went on a shooting rampage through a string of towns, leaving seven dead.
September 1995, Cuers, France: Eric Borel murdered three members of his family after they criticize him for his failure in secondary school exams, then walked to a nearby village and calmly opened fire on a quiet town square, killing nine more people before committing suicide.
Holland:
April 1983, Delft, Holland: Sevdet Yilmaz, a Dutch national of Turkish birth, shot dead six people and wounded four others in a crowded cafe in Delft.
New Zealand:
November 1990, Aramoana, New Zealand: David Malcolm Gray terrorized the small township of Aramoana killing 13 people before being fatally shot by police.
October 1941, Hokitika, New Zealand: Stanley Graham shot dead seven men including four police officers.
February 1997, Raurimu, New Zealand: Armed with a shotgun, Stephen Anderson stalked a New Zealand ski village for an hour, killing six people and seriously wounding five others.
Switzerland:
September 27, 2001, Zug, Switzerland: A gunman with a grievance against politicians went on the rampage in a regional parliament, killing at least 15 people - including himself and wounding dozens of others.
March 1992, Lugano, Switzerland: Erminio Criscione killed six people and wounded six others by ringing doorbells and firing on victims as they answered the door.
Germany:
February 2002: A former pupil killed his headmaster and set off pipe bombs in the technical school he had recently been expelled from in Freising near Munich. The man also shot dead his boss and a foreman at the company he worked for before turning the gun on himself.
April 2002: Seventeen people killed after a gunman - a former pupil - opens fire in a school in Erfurt, eastern Germany. He then turned the gun on himself.
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