Feud wrote:Well, I seem to remember something about a school massacre and a theater massacre in Russia that produced far more bodies then the average American shooting does.
So? It was done by terrorists, plus non-russians so I fail to understeand this remark. Using your way of thinking I can say about WTC massacre lol
Stewsburntmonkey wrote:rus|Mike wrote:Medical comission found him absolutely psychologically stable and sane. But surely you know better than professional medics
Or you just don't know what do this words mean?
My point was that Russians are just as capable of killing large numbers of people as anyone else (and historically are responsible for many of largest slaughters in history).
As far as mental health, Russia actually has high rates of mental illness. Historically mental illness in Russia was a highly political matter and was covered up as much as possible. This is starting to change however mental illness is still highly stigmatized which accounts for you no knowing of anyone who will admit to it.
I'm sure you don't trust the BBC at all, but for the others here
this is a interesting article on mental illness in Russia.
a) We are not talking about mental illnesses in general. We're talking about guys that, for example get fired, become angry and shoot couple dozens people in the supermarket. It never happened in Russia, but judging by the news (not Russian ones, no) happens really often in the US.
b) Somebody said about maniacs, mentioning Pichyshkin. That's another story. This man is perfectly sane and after some thinking came to the conclusions that he is aloud to kill people
well, conclusions are OK, but then he started executing his ideology, even knowing that it's against law and because of that he's put into a prison for the rest of his life. That's totaly different from those mass kills by people who are fired, left by a girl/boyfriend etc.
And btw, Pichyshkin is ONE person afterall and I can use search function of some news site to find really MANY of mass kills in US.
c) Oh and that article made me laugh
respect for authors for finding this "Peveralsk Psychiatric Hospital outside Yekaterinburg in the Urals". Well surely if you search well, you can find some halfly-abandomed vilage with doctors willing to say some really stupid things.
And once again, ther's no point in discussing gun crimes in general, because a criminal will be able to get a gun EVERYWHERE. Regardless state politics about weapons. Even if you're a citizen of Vatican, you really want a gun=you get it.
However, there's a point in talking about murders commited by those depressed people. They do such things just on the spot, so if there's no a shop with guns nearby, they're likely to end up calming down. That's my view on the problem.