Recent debate on gun control made me go back and do some googling on how different countries of the first world fall in the percentage of shooting spree and homicide compared to their measures on guns. I found some Manhattan presented from UN research which shows how extreme it is in US compared to other developed nations:
Looking at the available lists of instances of school shooting as recorded by wiki also gives a vicious picture, BTW those in Canada need not to get a relieved breather either. Since as early as 1764 from Greencastle, Pennsylvania to New Castle, Connecticut there has been numerous occurrences of such homicide which place the United States a whooping 20 times higher in position compared to other developing countries.
If you guys are interested just look at the size of this table:
List of school shooting in US
Now for other countries, mainly Canada and UK you can look at the following chart:
List of School Shootings in Canada/Europe/Other
Good news is for last 4/5 years total death count is 0 in Canada, although it had few incidents, nothing happened in Australia or NZ and also except few minor incidents Europe could stay clean. The only European country that has school shooting issues in an alarming proportion is Germany, though my guess is the places of occurrences mostly within the territory previously severed as East.
But as Sohel the savant mentioned Gun Control is definitely not the solution but better restriction can be justified from the incidents as the window of such occasions taking place is shortening. The argument can be verified from this article recently published in the Christian Science Monitor.
Reaction of New Town incident in Russia
As it is claimed Russia possess very strict gun control laws, Russians seem to be divided on the probable effectiveness of such control. Some information given are very disturbing like,
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"The license system works pretty well, but it does happen quite often that people pay to get fake medical certificates" and other needed documents,
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Countries and locales that fall into the "You can join a club and use a club gun but you must be resident to get a licence" category include:
Austria, Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guernsey, Hungary, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand (tourist licence required), Norway, Poland, Sweden and doubtless many others.
If you are more interested learning about these clubs in Europe and how they operate you may visit:
Shooting Abroad
The article may have been for UK inhabitants but should fall into more or less any foreigner.