We have them yes, but other countries have that problem too, with or without gun control. This is just for colleges I didn't google high schools, etc. No other country, eh?
Yes, in general, we have more shootings. I still want my guns, it keeps the government on it's toes.
April 7, 2011: Tasso da Silveira school, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, a 23-year-old former student at Tasso da Silveira school shoots and kills at least 12 students, and wounds at least 12 others. He entered the school at the start of classes, armed with two handguns. Many of the victims were in one Grade 8 class. The gunman, who left a suicide note, shot himself after being wounded by police.
April 30, 2009: Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan
Students leave the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in Baku, April 30, 2009 after a gunman killed 12 people. Aydin Mamedov/Associated Press Farda Gadyrov, a Georgian citizen, enters the Oil Academy just after classes begin and shoots everyone he encounters. He kills 12 people and injures another 13 with a semi-automatic Makarov pistol. With police approaching, Gadyrov kills himself. Azeri prosecutors allege the massacre was part of a plot motivated by ethnic hatred.
March 11, 2009: Albertville Technical High School, Winnenden, Germany
Tim Kretschmer, a 17-year-old gunman dressed in black combat gear, shoots and kills nine students and three teachers with a Beretta 9-mm pistol at his former school northeast of Stuttgart. After fleeing the school under police pursuit he kills three more people before shooting himself.
Sept. 23, 2008: Kauhajoki School of Hospitality, Kauhajoki, Finland
Matti Saari opens fire at his vocational school 290 kilometres northwest of Helsinki, killing 10 people before turning the gun on himself. He later dies in hospital. Finnish Interior Minister Anne Holmlund says the gunman had been questioned by police just one day before the attack about YouTube postings in which he is seen firing a handgun, but was released because there was no legal grounds to hold him.
Nov. 7, 2007: Jokela High School, Tuusula, Finland
A gunman opens fire at the school in southern Finland, killing six students, a school nurse and the principal before taking his own life. Police describe the shooter, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, as a bullied 18-year-old outcast. Auvinen reportedly posted YouTube videos of himself at target practice before the incident, in which he made vague references to "revolution" in a voice-over.
Sept. 13, 2006: Dawson College, Montreal
A young man opens fire outside Dawson College, a CEGEP serving about 10,000 students in downtown Montreal, and then continues the rampage inside the school.
Witnesses describe seeing a tall skinny youth with a Mohawk haircut walk into the cafeteria shortly before 1 p.m. ET carrying a large gun.
The shooter, Kimveer Gill, 25, later kills himself in a confrontation with police inside the school. One woman, 18-year-old Anastasia DeSousa, are killed and 19 people wounded.
Sept. 3, 2004: School Number One, Beslan, Russia
On Sept. 1, Chechen terrorists take over a school in the town of Beslan in the North Ossetia region of southwestern Russia. They hold more than 1,100 people hostage, including 777 children, for three days. Following two unexplained explosions inside the school On Sept. 3, Russian special forces storm the school and fire at it with tanks. Over 330 people die as a result, including 186 children. Russian officials say 31 hostage-takers were also killed. The late Chechen resistance leader Shamil Basayev planned the hostage-taking.
April 26, 2002: Johann Gutenberg Gymnasium, Erfurt, Germany
A former student at Johann Gutenberg Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, kills 16 people before turning the gun on himself. Most of Robert Steinhauser's victims are teachers.
April 28, 1999: W. R. Myers High School, Taber, Alta.
A 14-year-old boy opens fire with a .22-calibre rifle inside the school, about 200 kilometres southeast of Calgary. The boy, who can't be named because of his age at the time of the crime, kills student Jason Lang, 17. Another student, Shane Christmas, 17, is wounded, but recovers from his injuries.
March 13, 1996: Dunblane Primary School, Dunblane, Scotland
A 43-year-old unemployed former store owner, Thomas Hamilton, cuts the telephone lines to Dunblane Primary School in central Scotland and enters, armed with two pistols, two revolvers and more than 700 cartridges. He begins shooting in the school gymnasium, killing a teacher and 16 children, many of them under the age of six.
Aug. 24, 1992: Concordia University, Montreal
A professor at Concordia, Valery Fabrikant, fires on his colleagues, killing four and wounding one.
Dec. 6, 1989: L'École Polytechnique, Montreal
Marc Lépine, 25, walks into a classroom at Montreal's l'École Polytechnique engineering school, separates the men from the women, then tells the men to leave. Then he begins shooting from a semi-automatic military weapon, shouting "I want women" as he roams the school's floors. Lépine kills 13 female students and a college employee, and injures 13 others before committing suicide.
October 1978: Sturgeon Creek School, Winnipeg
A 17-year-old student shoots and kills a 16-year-old at a Winnipeg high school.
Oct. 27, 1975: Saint Pius X School, Ottawa
Robert Poulin, an 18-year-old militia sharpshooter, sexually attacks and kills a friend, 17-year-old Kim Rabot, then shoots six people at Saint Pius X school in Ottawa. Poulin then kills himself. One of the wounded students would die more than a month later.
May 1975: Centennial Secondary School, Brampton, Ont.
Michael Slobodian, 16, shoots and kills a teacher and a student, and wounds 13 others before turning the gun on himself.
May 15, 1974: Netiv Meir school, Ma'alot, Israel
Three members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine infiltrated Israel from Lebanon. After killing five Israelis, they took over a school in the border town of Ma’alot in the middle of the night. Students visiting the area were sleeping in the school while on a class trip. The hostage-takers demanded the release of some prisoners being held by Israel, setting a 6 p.m. deadline for their demands to be met. Thirty minutes before the deadline, Israeli forces stormed the school. Before they died, the hostage-takers killed 22 children and three adults, and injured another 68, using automatic weapons and grenades.
Lot of druggies round here tho. Own a gun.
